Topic: Floods and Flooding Army engineers to open key Louisiana spillway - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

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Army engineers to open key Louisiana spillway - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
         

US authorities will start opening a key spillway by early Saturday evening to relieve the swollen Mississippi River and avoid flooding in Louisiana's two largest cities, although potentially swamping thousands of homes and acres of crops.
       

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/14/3216880.htm