Louisiana spillway unlocks to ease flooding-witness

MORGANZA, Louisiana: Reuters Report’s - U.S. army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway in Louisiana to ease heaviness on the swelling Mississippi River, a Reuters eyewitness said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened one of the 125 floodgates at the Morganza Spillway 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Baton Rouge, Louisiana's capital.

The action might overwhelm some 3,000 square miles (7,770 sq km) of low-lying marsh and cropland in the Atchafalaya River basin in up to 20 feet (6 meters) of water for quite a few weeks, but spare Louisiana's two major cities from flooding.

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