(CNN) — The saltwater wedge threatening New Orleans drinking water has been delayed by several weeks in its upstream trek on the Mississippi River thanks to better-than-forecast river flows last month, officials in Louisiana said Thursday. Because of this delay, the large water treatment intakes around New Orleans – including the Carrollton intake, which serves...
“This updated projection is clearly a relief to all of us,” said Collin Arnold, director of homeland security and emergency preparedness for the city of New Orleans. “But our job in emergency management is to help prepare for the worst.”Louisiana officials say barges, desalination machines and pipelines will be needed to combat the saltwater intrusion creeping up the Mississippi River.
The saltwater wedge has remained just south of Belle Chasse since September 24, when the Corps began expanding the underwater sill. Last week, New Orleans officials announced a multimillion-dollar pipeline would be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream to keep saltwater out of the city’s water treatment facilities. While contractors are already in place to build the temporary pipeline, Ron Spooner, interim general superintendent of the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board, said they are holding back parts of the plan to explore more permanent solutions.
The Diamond Lady, a once majestic riverboat, rests with smaller boats in mud at Riverside Park Marina in Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park along the Mississippi River on October 19, 2022, in Memphis, Tennessee. Drought gripped the Mississippi River for the second straight year in 2023.
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Reprieve for New Orleans as salt water creeping up the Mississippi River slows its march inlandSalt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river. Officials said at a news conference in New Orleans on Thursday that an underwater sill downriver has helped impede the flow of heavy salt water crawling upriver. River flow forecasts are also better than expected. It means intakes in New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish won't see the arrival until late November, instead of later this month. For smaller communities farther downriver, efforts continue to barge large amounts of fresh water to water system intakes.
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Reprieve for New Orleans as salt water creeping up the Mississippi River slows its march inlandSalt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river
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Reprieve for New Orleans as salt water creeping up the Mississippi River slows its march inlandSalt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river
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Reprieve for New Orleans as salt water creeping up the Mississippi River slows its march inlandSalt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river.
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Reprieve for New Orleans as salt water creeping up the Mississippi River slows its march inlandSalt water inching up the Mississippi River is progressing more slowly than once projected — buying time for water systems in metropolitan New Orleans that draw drinking water from the river.
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