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The following chart shows the years when the spillway was opened, number of days it remained open, peak number of bays opened, percent of maximum flow at peak, and peak flow rate. The spillway has a design capacity of 250,000 cu ft/s when all 350 bays are fully open, or approximately 714 cu ft/s per bay. [13] [14]
The U.S. 61 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge is a twin concrete trestle bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [1] [2] It has a total length of 1,830.62 metres (6,006.0 ft). The bridge carries U.S. Route 61 (Airline Highway) over the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish. The original bridge opened in 1935 serving four narrow lanes of ...
In 2011, most likely due to debris hitting the bridge after the opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway, 26 feet (7.9 m) of the bridge was damaged and a bridge pier was dislodged. [3] On February 13, 2016, a fire destroyed over 800 feet (240 m) of the trestle near its southeast end.
The I-10 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge is a twin concrete trestle bridge in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [1] With a total length of 58,077 feet (17,702 m; 10.9994 mi), it is one of the longest bridges in the world .
Major bridges on I-10 in Louisiana include the Sabine River Bridge (c. 1952, replaced 2003), the Lake Charles I-10 Bridge (1952), the Atchafalaya Swamp Freeway (1973), the Horace Wilkinson Bridge over the Mississippi River (1968), the Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge (c. 1972), the Industrial Canal Bridge (c. 1960), Frank Davis "Naturally N'Awlins ...
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Bonnet Carré Spillway, a flood control structure in Louisiana; Bonnet Carré Crevasse, 1871 Mississippi River levee failure and associated flood
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