Brackish water creeping up the Mississippi River may threaten Louisiana’s drinking supply
For the third year in a row, Louisiana is constructing an underwater levee in the Mississippi River to slow an influx of salt ...
NOLA.com6d
The New Orleans Riverfront Expressway was defeated, but a troublesome tunnel still remains
While the expressway would have alleviated French Quarter traffic, it also would have cut off pedestrian access to the river ...
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Blake Pontchartrain: Several New Orleans streets are named after Collins Diboll. Who was he?
Architectural firm Diboll, Owen and Goldstein built many buildings in the 1900s, including WWL-TV studios and the former ...
After storms like Francine, New Orleans rushes to dry out
NEW ORLEANS -- Hurricane Francine rapidly strengthened before making landfall in Louisiana on Wednesday, knocking out power ...
The Independent11d
The Mississippi River is running low again. It’s a problem for farmers moving beans and grain
Since then, the river level has dropped steadily ... About 60% of U.S. grain exports are taken by barge down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where the corn, soybeans and wheat is stored and ...
New Orleans City Business5d
A turtle and its advocates could stand in the way of a huge Pearl River engineering project
Devros is a graduate student and researcher from the University of Southern Mississippi, and he’s working to tag and ...
Verite12d
Salt in the Mississippi River threatens water supplies yet again. What’s New Orleans’ ‘long-term solution’?
For the third year in a row, seawater creeping up the Mississippi River is threatening the drinking water supply in and ...
New Orleans City Business1d
Mississippi River mayors agree to unify ports from the Corn Belt to the coast
On Wednesday, mayors from the Midwestern Corn Belt joined mayors from Louisiana to sign the Mississippi River Ports ...
TwinCities.com3d
Facts to know about the Mississippi River
In New Orleans, that rises to 600,000 cubic feet per second. While mere inches at the headwaters, the river’s depth drops dramatically once you get close to its mouth. The deepest point ...
Hurricane Francine strengthens to Category 2 as eyewall nears Louisiana coast; new tropical depression forms in Atlantic
Tropical Storm Francine was nearing hurricane strength on Tuesday morning on a track toward the Louisiana coast, according to ...
New Orleans district of USACE starting construction on underwater saltwater barrier
The first part of construction will build the sill to an elevation of -55 feet, and the Corps will monitor the progression of the saltwater wedge to determine if additional height is needed to meet ...
Forbes10d
New Orleans, LA
Straddling the Mississippi River, New Orleans is home to one of the largest and busiest ports in the world and is a center of the maritime industry. The New Orleans region also accounts for a ...