Officials in Plaquemines Parish issued a drinking water advisory due to higher levels of sodium and chloride from the salt water wedge moving up the Mississippi River.The Environmental Protection ...

APPLIANCES. OKAY, STAYING ON THE TOPIC OF THE SALTWATER INTRUSION, JUST LIKE ELI MENTIONED, THERE’S AN ESTIMATE FOR TIMING OF THAT SALTWATER AS IT MOVES UPSTREAM, AS IT MOVES FARTHER NORTH. SO YOU ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started augmenting the underwater sill in the Mississippi River to slow progression of salt water upstream. The USACE New Orleans District contracted for a dredge, the ...

As a wedge of salt water creeps up the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering an unusual tactic: Using the massive Old River Control Structure to reduce the amount of water ...

BELLE CHASSE, La. — A restaurant in Belle Chasse says they're preparing for the saltwater wedge to effect them. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, we need about 10 inches of rain in the ...

In late September, low water levels appear in a part of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish where sills were being built, to help hold back the salt water intrusion. Interventions like those, ...

Louisianans know salt as the most important seasoning tool in their kitchens. We purchase it in bulk during crawfish season. It makes a pot of gumbo shine and is the reason we sling back raw oysters ...

The Mississippi River is a connected system. If farms dump fertilizer into the river’s tributaries in Ohio, that waste ends up in the Gulf of Mexico. If heavy rains make the river’s level rise in ...

An emergency barrier sill built underwater near Myrtle Grove, La., has halted a wedge of salt traveling up the Mississippi River that has come perilously close to local drinking water intakes. “The ...

For months, Louisiana oyster farmer Mitch Jurisich, Jr. watched the Mississippi as an invisible surge of Gulf of Mexico salt water crept up the tail end of the river, twisting along levees through ...

A barge maneuvers its way down the normally wide Mississippi River where it has been reduced to a narrow trickle at Tiptonville, Tennessee, on Oct. 20, 2022. (Jeff Roberson/AP) NEW ORLEANS (CN) — New ...