The dam road is closed at Gavins Point, shut down for maintenance of the dam road and dam gates. But what is all this work, ...

The upper 730 feet also will be repaired next year. The lower half of the spillway structure crumbled amid powerful storms in February, disabling the reservoir’s most important tool for ...

Oroville Reservoir’s capacity is about 3.5 million acre-feet. The spillway structure was badly damaged in February among record rains and needs to be rebuilt. When it failed, the reservoir ...

“The forensic analysis must be performed by a fully independent third party with no previous involvement in assessing the spillway structure at this project,” wrote David Capka, FERC’s ...

Current forecasts indicate the spillway could be open for two to four weeks. Opening of the structure relieves pressure on local levees, lowers river stages, and reduces the speed of the river ...

Operation of the spillway allowed flood waters from the Mississippi River to flow through the structure into farmlands along the Morganza Floodway. The flood was confined by guide levees to force ...

In a historic move to reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers on Saturday began opening the Morganza Floodway to divert water from the ...

MORGAN CITY — Lee Dragna was born in 1973, the first time the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Morganza Spillway control structure to alleviate flooding on the Mississippi River. That's when ...

Specifically, the Court wrote since there was no physical change in the spillway structure, NEPA doesn’t require a supplemental environmental report. “For better or worse, Congress and the ...

With the threat of the Mississippi River getting too high for the New Orleans area levees, crews today are practicing opening the Bonnet Spillway structure. "Right now the seven day forecast does ...