Army Corps has a plan to delay saltwater creeping upriver

Barges move along the Mississippi River near the Port of Greater Baton Rouge. (Tim Mueller)

As drought continues to force saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico upriver in Louisiana, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this morning announced a plan to slow the flow.


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