Water barges and salt-filtering reverse osmosis units will not be enough to prevent saltwater from contaminating New Orleans’ largest water facility, officials said at city council meeting on Wednesday. Instead, a pipeline will be needed to deliver freshwater from upstream — not just for New Orleans, but likely for neighboring Jefferson Parish, too.
It would be a significant and pricey escalation in the region’s response to the saltwater wedge inching its way up the Mississippi River and contaminating drinking water for thousands of people.
“Barring the rain that’s probably not going to happen … the tactic or strategy we’re taking right now is drawing water further upriver,” Collin Arnold, director of homeland security and emergency preparedness for the city of New Orleans, told New Orleans City Council members.
The output of the river is 120000 cubic feet a second. This isn’t California. There is still plenty of water in the river. This isn’t even the Lowest recorded flow. Plus 30% of the flow goes down the atchafalaya river.
There is nothing to disagree you are wrong.
Ah so we’re just making up rivers now…
Pretty shit thing to make fun of how stuff is named
I was guessing it’s an aboriginal name, so I looked it up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atchafalaya_River
Yes. With a small amount of something European colonists mastered: vocal dyslexia
Ha! I’ve been accused of making up the names of stuff in Louisiana too. Natchitoches and Atchafalaya are always at the top.
It’s a joke cupcake.