When the Bonnet Carre Spillway opens, as it did earlier this year, it’s been known to create quite the crawfishing opportunity for anglers in the area, who have no doubt been waiting for their chance to strike this year. […]
With a cast of his fishing line, Danny Simoneaux explained he was on his second day of fishing at the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway and pleased with the 30 catfish he caught in the area. […]
Although the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway is already being opened to avoid flooding with heavy rains from the Ohio Valley, a second opening is possible this year from a late northern ice melt. […]
If bald eagles hanging around the rain-swollen Bonnet Carre’ Spillway in Norco are any indication of what’s coming with today’s opening of the levee, then the public is grabbing fishing lines and nets. […]
Weeks earlier than anticipated, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway at 10 a.m. Thursday to ease the fast rising waters of the Mississippi River. […]
A Norco father wants to know what happened to his son after an apparent explosive blew off parts of his son’s fingers at the Bonnet Carre Spillway. […]
Heavy rains from the North and Midwest are expected to make the Mississippi River crest at 16.5 feet by May 28, just narrowly missing the “trigger” the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers relies on to open the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway. […]
The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office is seeking help with locating a Mississippi woman reported missing from a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sinking unit on the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway.
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Against a cerulean sky sprawling over the more than 7,000 acres of the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway area in Norco, Harold Berner watched his bright yellow Waco model airplane soar in a circle and then glide into a landing on the ground. […]
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