Massive barges brought over a million gallons of fresh water to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on Monday as the community tackles the intrusion of saltwater that’s threatening drinking supplies.
Published Oct 3, 2023 12:41 PM MSTMassive barges brought over a million gallons of fresh water to Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, on October 2 as the community tackles the intrusion of saltwater that’s threatening drinking supplies.
up in the upper Mississippi, the Missouri and the Ohio Basin.”that’s also now threatening New Orleans And the next rains won’t end the problem, he said. “We have to prepare that we are going to have this saltwater intrusion on an annual basis here.” The Army Corps of Engineers has built an underwater sill to prevent saltwater intrusion from impacting drinking water supplies along the Mississippi River.In New Orleans, Russel Honoré looks out across the mighty Mississippi and spots something he’s never seen before. The river is so low that 3 or 4 feet of pilings are exposed. “It’s like a new piece of architecture that somebody just built. And It’s been there for decades,” he told CNN.
At that time, there were many naysayers claiming global warming was “juju,” he remembered, but now urgent measures have to be taken. “The National Weather Service said that in El Niño years, typically October and November and December tend to be wetter. So that’s what we’re hoping for,” he said.
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