Experts say the saltwater wedge is moving around 1 1/2 miles upriver every day, and it's creating unsafe levels of saline.
It's called a saltwater wedge, and while it may sound like something off a New Orleans drink menu, it's not anything anybody wants.
Tammy Lynn Lemon is a resident of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, and she's one of many people in the community buying up cases of water in response to worries of higher levels of sodium chloride in the water system.Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards met Friday with local officials to head off the problem caused by drought-related low water levels, and while calling the situation serious, he urged people not to panic — not to go on a bottled water buying spree, but to conserve tap water.
The Army Corps of Engineers built an underwater barrier called a sill to create a basin to stop the salt water.
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