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Corps to barge 36M gallons of freshwater a day to help areas facing saltwater contamination

Por: The Advocate Politics September 23, 2023

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Unsafe levels of saltwater may reach many New Orleans-area drinking water intakes by mid-October, forcing officials to scramble for barges that will bring in fresh water from further up the Mississippi in hopes of avoiding  contamination of local water supplies.Gov. John Bel Edwards joined federal, state and local officials at a news conference Friday to explain how they were making plans for a duration of an event and a severity of an event... + full article



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