A vehicle fire on the eastbound span of I-10 over the Bonne Carré Spillway closed one lane Tuesday afternoon near mile marker ...

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Under current policy, the Bonnet Carre Spillway is the first to be opened when high water threatens the structural integrity of the levees. The corps can open as many of the 350 bays in the ...

The Bonnet Carré has been opened 15 times since its completion in 1931. But six of those openings have occurred over the last 12 years, as flooding has become more frequent, with four of the ...

Traffic was backed up for hours on the Bonnet Carré Spillway after an 18-wheeler caught fire on the bridge Wednesday morning. Crews began working to remove the damaged trailer around 7 a.m. State ...

The Bonnet Carré Spillway is designed to ensure that a maximum river flow of 1.25 million cubic feet per second is passed through the Mississippi River and Tributaries system at New Orleans, the ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Mississippi River at New Orleans could reach the trigger point needed to open the Bonnet Carré Spillway by Friday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Water seeps through the timbers of the Bonnet Carre Spillway before it is opened by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Norco, La. Thursday, March 8, 2018, to relieve flooding risk down river in New ...

LAPLACE, La. (WGNO) — It was a violent scene in the midst of a mile-long traffic jam late Saturday night on the Bonnet Carré Spillway, when a groom still wearing his wedding day tuxedo shot two ...

The spillway has been opened 14 times since it was built in the 1930s to help manage Mississippi River flooding and navigation. Of those openings, five have happened since 2011.