Louisiana braces as flood spillway opens
Louisiana faces flooding, high waters for three weeks
Move could spare New Orleans, Baton Rouge from floods
Eye on refineries, crops
(Adds spillway opens, details)
By Kathy Finn
MORGANZA, Louisiana, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway to allow the swollen Mississippi River to flood thousands of homes and crops but spare New Orleans and Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge.
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