Col. Richard Hansen and U.S. Rep. Garret Graves, R-Baton Rouge were among the speakers during a press conference before cranes atop the weir separating the Mississippi River from the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Norco began pulling long creosoted timber "needles" from the first of 350 bays on Sunday (Jan. 10), part of a plan to reduce the river's flow as it moves past New Orleans by directing part of its water into Lake Pontchartrain.
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