FILE - March 8, 2018 file photo, workers open the gates of the Bonnet Carre spillway, a river diversion structure, which diverts water from the rising Mississippi River, above right, to Lake ...

The U..S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided against opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway — welcome news for South Mississippi as Mississippi River water released through the spillway can degrade ...

A federal judge in Mississippi ruled in two cases that his court didn’t have the authority to order the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to complete an environmental impact study on repeated openings of a ...

THE FLOODING STARTED WITH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN DECEMBER OF 2018, AND PERSISTED INTO THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR... THAT FLOODWATER WAS DIVERTED...CREATING MORE PROBLEMS FOR THE STATE... NOW ...

The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and Louisiana, ...

This satellite image of the lower Mississippi River delta on Saturday (April 27) shows both the remaining effects of sediment carried by water released during the opening of the Bonnet Carre spillway ...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Officials in Mississippi are trying to force the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River Commission to consult with them before opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS — The Mississippi River is ...

Above: The Morganza Spillway on May 15, 2011, a day after its flood gates were opened. Image credit: Divine Providence: The 2011 Flood in the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, by U.S. Army ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ran a test opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway Monday morning following weeks of rising Mississippi River waters that could prompt the floodway to be used for the ...

Mississippi will get $1.25 million to evaluate the effects of freshwater from a Louisiana spillway on dolphins and sea turtles in the Mississippi Sound.Gov. Phil Bryant said Friday that the money from ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and ...