Talk:Bonnet Carré Spillway

We need a reference for this
"In addition, the floodwaters are of some benefit to Lake Pontchartrain. The river's fresh water and nutrients helps the habitats of various species thrive, including different species of fish, birds and shellfish."

I don't know if this is actually a legit statement. I'll talk to some Bio people I know at UNO and see what they think, but it sounds a lot like "what a great thing the Bonnet Carre is!". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.241.113.16 (talk) 03:08, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

what type of fish are in the spillway? i plan on fishing there. So far i've seen carp and bass being caught, what else? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.131.95.164 (talk) 15:00, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Origin of Bonnet Carré place name
What is the origin of the name Bonnet Carre? We pronounce it "Bonnie Carey" here in Baton Rouge, but I don't know why it's called what it is called. 216.231.109.43 (talk) 03:27, 11 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Looks like it was a regional name for the area where the Spillway is located, given somewhere in the 1700s. There's more in the LaPlace, Louisiana article. The name itself is French for "square hat." TrivialJim (talk) 23:16, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

References Links Gone
The references cited are mostly gone. I removed the old #3 (Morning Advocate, Baton Rouge) but ALL of the links now 1 through 7, notably the Corps of Engineers, are also dead links. 8 and 9 were updated. 174.73.22.113 (talk) 05:07, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

History of openings
This section references an ideal flow capacity. However, the more recent entries reference flows reported by the US Army Corps of Engineers rather than values based on the ideal flow capacity. The reported flows are probably more accurate. Is there an advantage to keeping the ideal flow capacity discussion? MississippiRiverRat (talk) 01:56, 4 May 2020 (UTC)


 * I was confused by that table on a drive-by reading; the math is off for ideal flow since 2016. It appears that the concept was introduced by @Nat-NOLA in this edit which was just multiplying the percentage of gates open vs the "ideal" capacity with all gates open.
 * I'm going to rework that table to make more sense and be a bit more accurate. Specifically, I'm going to:
 * Change the column heading of "Bays Open" to "Bays Open at Peak" to reflect that this is the largest number of bays that were open during the period
 * Change the column heading "% Open" to "% of Maximum Flow"
 * Change the column heading "Ideal Flow Capacity" to "Peak Flow Rate" which makes more sense as it's expressed in ft$3$/s
 * Fix the broken math in the Peak Flow Rate column
 * TrivialJim (talk) 17:05, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
 * ✅ Done. Figures from the Army Corp of Engineers page only go back to 2018; adjusted the 2016 math trusting that the peak flow rate was correct since all the other peak flows after were accurate. Everything from 2011 and before checked out. TrivialJim (talk) 23:11, 22 December 2023 (UTC)