Bonnet Carre’ Spillway fire is extinguished, trestles damaged
Following a multi-agency response, the fire that set ablaze train trestles on the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway has been extinguished with “a few hot spots” remaining.
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Following a multi-agency response, the fire that set ablaze train trestles on the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway has been extinguished with “a few hot spots” remaining.
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A fire started this morning (Feb. 13) that set one or more train trestles ablaze over the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is gradually reclosing 200 bays of the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway, making way for the much anticipated fishing and crawfishing bounty expected with area flooding. […]
With 10 Bonnet Carre’ Spillway openings under his belt, local environmentalist Milton Cambre recently told fourth-graders at Norco Elementary School not to worry about animals like deer and hogs displaced by the Mississippi River flood waters. […]
St. Charles Parish has a distinction that no other parish or county or section of land in the country has – it contains the valve that can be opened to let the major waterway of our country empty some of its water to help save this land of ours from flooding. […]
To ease the rain-swollen waters of the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps has announced it will open the Bonnet Carre’ Spillway in Norco on Sunday and could also open the Morganza Spillway as soon as Tuesday.
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St. Charles Parish was recently used as a testing ground by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a unmanned aircraft drone shot images of and around the Bonnet Carre Spillway. […]
With the Mississippi River flush with the high waters of the Red River and heavy northern rains, Bonnet Carre’ Spillway Road was quickly flooded and closed. […]
The river is rising in the Crescent City, at least until the end of the month. […]
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