(The Times-Picayune archive) The Bonnet Carre Spillway The Corps will open the spillway to keep the volume of Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cubic feet per ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans' levee system comes at a cost: The rush of ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans’ levee system comes at a cost ...

The lower part of the photo shows the Bonnet Carré Spillway, which had just been opened to divert excess water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain. I was returning from the American ...

Above: Extracting a needle--very carefully--from the Bonnet Carré Spillway during its opening on January 10, 2016. Each of the 350 concrete bays holds 20 needles. Image credit: Bob Henson.

Repeated openings of the Bonnet Carré Spillway, never contemplated when it was built 91 years ago, threaten an ecosystem that has sustained South Mississippi and Louisiana residents for centuries.

A partial opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway "seems a certainty now," Louisiana State Climatologist Jay Grymes said in emailed comments Thursday, as recent forecasts indicated a further rise in ...

The Army Corps of Engineers will be opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway Friday as early at 1 p.m.On Thursday the Corps recommended operating the Bonnet Carré Spillway to the Mississippi Valley ...

With the Mississippi River rising and heavy rainfall upstream, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct a test opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway on Monday, April 21 at 10 a.m. The test ...

ALL RIGHT CASSIE THANK YOU. AND AGAIN SAINT CHARLES PARISH LEADING UP THE INVESTIGATION THAT YOU SEE RIGHT HERE ON THE BONNET CARRE SPILLWAY STATE POLICE ASSISTING WITH THAT. THE MOTORIST ...