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Morganza Spillway Closed
The Morganza spillway is now fully closed.
Seventeen of the gates were opened in May in a successful effort to divert waters from a swollen Mississippi River to reduce the potential for severe flooding in from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. The corps started closing the gates after the threat began diminishing.
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