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FILE - In this May 10, 2019 file photo, workers open bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, to divert rising water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, upriver from New Orleans, in Norco, La. After more than 10 weeks, the Mississippi River is low enough to let the Army Corps of Engineers begin closing the huge spillway west of New Orleans, the corps said in a news release Monday, July 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Mississippi River drops enough to begin closing big spillway

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

FILE - In a Friday, May 10, 2019 file photo, workers open bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, to divert rising water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, upriver from New Orleans, in Norco, La. The Army Corps of Engineers expects to begin closing the Bonnet Carré Spillway north of New Orleans sometime in the second or third week of July. The corps began opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway on May 10 to relieve stress on levees protecting New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Spillway north of New Orleans expected to close in July

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press