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Corps of engineers and he joins us now. tom, let s start with the bonnet carre spillway northwest of new orleans and can you explain to us what a lot of rus learning what the spillway does so what is the goal essentially here? well, several spillways and floodways that have been designed within the mississippi river and tributary system to offer relief flowage of the main stem of the mississippi river to impact the stages not only below the stillway or the floodway but above it. in bonnet carre in particular, it is designed to alleviate the stages between the bonnet carre and the gulf of mexico. maximum, it is designed to carry is about 250,000 cubic feet per second. so less pressure then on the levees around new orleans, thus, diverting the water through pontchartrain to the gulf, but ....

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