MORGANZA, La. (WAFB ... The barge will serve as a temporary floodgate to reduce the flow of backwater into Assumption and lower Iberville parishes. Similar temporary solutions for Bayou Chene ...

MORGANZA, La. — Water from the inflated Mississippi River gushed through a floodgate Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades and headed toward thousands of homes and farmland in the ...

The two projects are acknowledged as critical components of the Morganza to the Gulf Hurricane Protection System. With the completion of the 147-foot Grand Bayou Floodgate, the Morganza to the ...

MORGANZA, Louisiana—A steel, 10-ton floodgate was slowly raised Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, unleashing a torrent of water from the Mississippi River, away from heavily ...

Scalise and Graves added $19.3 million for Morganza to a federal spending bill headed to a House vote in coming days. The money will help pay for design and engineering for a floodgate on the ...

BAYOU CHENE, La. — With the delay of the opening of the Morganza Spillway, the installation of the temporary floodgate at Bayou Chene is expected to be completed long before additional water ...

MORGANZA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers closed the last of the Morganza Spillway’s open gates Thursday afternoon. The spring marked only the second time the structure had been opened since ...

It read: ‘Wildlife crossing possible. Use caution’. The Morganza floodgate was opened Saturday for the first time in nearly four decades, shooting out like a waterfall, spraying 6ft into the air.

Louisiana’s Morganza floodway was opened today, sending torrents of brown water from the Mississippi River into the Atchafalaya River basin, a move designed to spare Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

Reauthorization recommended for Morganza to Gulf hurricane protection systemThe floodgate will connect the Lafourche and Terrebonne drainage levees. POINTE-AUX-CHENES, La. — State officials have ...

It's a key component of the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection system, a 98-mile collection of levees, locks and floodgates that protects Terrebonne Parish from Gulf storms. The floodgate ...