BOOTHVILLE – Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, an 18-wheeler trailer filled with ... This is the third year in a row that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has crept up the ...

The massive saltwater wedge moving up the Mississippi River, the area’s main source of drinking water, threatened to expose close to a million ... and 2022. Louisiana has in the past averted ...

Saltwater is again intruding up the ... This map shows the estimated location of the leading toe of saltwater traveling from the Gulf of Mexico upriver in the Mississippi River.

Another serious impact of the low water levels is a wedge of salt water has leaked up the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico into parts of Louisiana ... began with a close encounter ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An influx of ...

The mighty Mississippi River is on the rise in Louisiana, where it's projected to ... the impacts as the river rises and begins to get up against the levees." The river will reach flood stage ...

It’s not just the abundance of Louisiana ... up from approximately 3,058 square miles in 2023. These massive algae blooms are caused by nutrients that run off farms up and down the Mississippi ...

It’s not just the abundance of Louisiana ... up from approximately 3,058 square miles in 2023. These massive algae blooms are caused by nutrients that run off of farms up and down the ...

Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, an 18-wheeler trailer ... a row that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has crept up the Mississippi River. This phenomenon, known as ...

BATON ROUGE, La. — An influx of salt water in the Mississippi River, which feeds southeastern Louisiana's drinking water supplies, is once again creeping up the waterway. For the third year in a ...

(AP) — For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico. Brackish water is creeping up ...