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They also opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway, near New Orleans, for only the 10th time since 1937.
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The opening of the Morganza Spillway is triggered when the Mississippi gushes at a rate of more than 1.5 million cubic feet per second just north of the spillway, Anderson said.
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Seventy-two kilometers north of Louisiana's capital, experts say this plume of gushing water from the Morganza Spillway will gradually raise water levels up to six meters high -- flooding farms and businesses in an area that until Saturday was home to more than 25,000 people.
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They also opened the Bonnet Carre Spillway, near New Orleans, for only the 10th time since 1937.
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Seventy-two kilometers north of Louisiana's capital, experts say this plume of gushing water from the Morganza Spillway will gradually raise water levels up to six meters high -- flooding farms and businesses in an area that until Saturday was home to more than 25,000 people.
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Gerald Herbert/Associated Press LOOKING FOR THE BIG ONE: A man fished near the Mississippi River's Bonnet Carre Spillway, Monday, after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the last bays of the spillway, which had been opened in May to ease flooding along the river.
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Though not discussed by Broussard, the Bonnet Carre Spillway is operated by the Corps' New Orleans District, with oversight from the the agency's division office in Vicksburg, Miss.
Susan Buchanan: Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion Susan Buchanan 2011
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Gerald Herbert/Associated Press LOOKING FOR THE BIG ONE: A man fished near the Mississippi River's Bonnet Carre Spillway, Monday, after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the last bays of the spillway, which had been opened in May to ease flooding along the river.
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Though not discussed by Broussard, the Bonnet Carre Spillway is operated by the Corps' New Orleans District, with oversight from the the agency's division office in Vicksburg, Miss.
Susan Buchanan: Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion Susan Buchanan 2011
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The opening of the Morganza Spillway is triggered when the Mississippi gushes at a rate of more than 1.5 million cubic feet per second just north of the spillway, Anderson said.
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