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Low river may allow saltwater to overtop emergency sill and threaten drinking water: Corps

Por: The Advocate Politics September 14, 2023

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In the next few weeks, saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico will likely overtop an built on the bottom of the Mississippi River to protect Plaquemines Parish's Belle Chasse water plant intake, an official said Wednesday. The Corps is trying to determine whether the salt could move far enough up river to threaten the supply of drinking water in St. Bernard Parish, or even New Orleans. Our models are showing that the saltwater sill that we do... + full article



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