Just read something odd on NOLA forum. There are said to be locks between the Miss River and Lake Ponchatrain that "regulate water levels" between the two. I never heard of such. Anyway they are broken since Katrina and stuck in the "open position". I don't know if this is connected with the Bonnet Carre spillway outside NO used if the Miss gets too high.
Does anyone know about this?
Just got answer. This is part of BC spillway. Locks on the Miss can be opened for water to exit the River above NO and go thru a big swath of the land, spillway, and go into Lake Ponchatrain.
I wonder if this means that water from the Lake going over those levees is Miss River water.
I haven't heard this before so it is in the area of rumor, maybe false. People outside NO should be able to see and report it if so.
I've heard of the locks. And I've also heard that, somehow, they regulate between the lake and the river. My understanding has always been that one or the other could be used to pump to depending on which source was the problem. I'm not more educated than that. The river hasn't been a problem so far. But, as someone pointed out, there will be rain water coming from everywhere north and into the river.