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It would be a nightmare for any city: A massive wedge of saltwater creeping up the Mississippi River, contaminating drinking water at treatment plants one-by-one and threatening the health of ...
The plan outline key components of revitalizing the wetlands and water bodies that had been damaged by the construction and resulting factors (e.g. salt water intrusion) of the MRGO. The roughly $2.9 billion plan included: A freshwater diversion at or near Violet, Louisiana; 14,123 acres of fresh and intermediate marsh
Louisiana officials said Thursday that efforts to slow the push of salt water upstream in the Mississippi River are helping to buy additional weeks before drinking water supplies in and around New ...
That is a sentiment echoed by officials across the state, as the drought-stricken Mississippi River’s flow is low and slow, allowing for salt water from the Gulf of Mexico to intrude upstream ...
Many communities in south Louisiana rely on the Mississippi’s fresh water, having built their water intake treatment facilities right along the river. Salt water intrusion in Louisiana is not unique to this year. Last year in parts of Plaquemines Parish, the southeast corner of Louisiana that encompasses the final stretch of the Mississippi ...
Officials in Louisiana are warning that saltwater coming up from the Gulf of Mexico could affect the availability of safe drinking water for millions of people along the Mississippi River.
Saltwater intrusion in southeast Florida has occurred largely as a result of drainage canals built between 1903 into the 1980s to drain the Everglades for agricultural and urban development. The main cause of intrusion was the lowering of the water table, though the canals also conveyed seawater inland until the construction of water control gates.
The structure is operated in conjunction with Calcasieu and Leland Bowman Locks on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW), Catfish Point Control Structure on the Mermentau River, and Freshwater Bayou Lock on the south side of the basin, all of which help prevent salt water intrusion into the Mermentau River Basin.