No change at the Bonnet Carre' Spillway, they're still opening the bays.

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Bays are the wooden planks they pull out one by one that separate the Mississippi River from Lake Pontchartrain.

If you're unfamiliar with the Bonnet Carre' Spillway, it's a flood control operation in the lower part of the Mississippi. It's about 12 miles from New Orleans and it runs under I-10 between Kenner and LaPlace, La.

It allows the Mississippi River to overflow into Lake Pontchartrain, then into the Gulf of Mexico.

Last time it was opened was in 2011, when the Mississippi River was too high and threatened to spill over the levees in New Orleans. It has opened again due to the Mississippi River rising to dangerous levels.

According to Army Corps in New Orleans they have opened 210 bays. That means 186,000 cubic feet of water passes through per second. Check out the Snapchat I took over the weekend while passing through on the I-10.

They expect the spillway to be open through the the first week of February. As the river starts to fall more bays will be added to the spillway until it's completely closed off.

Video from the UAS at Bonnet Carre` and Lake Pontchartrain.

Posted by US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District on Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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