Construction has begun on a saltwater sill near Myrtle Grove to help mitigate the effects of saltwater intrusion up the Mississippi River. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a construction ...

A ship, right, passes as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews use dredges and pipes to move silt onto an underwater sill along the bottom of the Mississippi River on Friday, September 22, 2023 ...

A home backs up to the Mississippi River levee next to where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was building an underwater sill with mud to slow the flow of saltwater on Sept. 26, 2023.

BOOTHVILLE – Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, an 18-wheeler trailer filled with white cylinders whirred as workers prepared to turn the machine off for the day. The truck houses ...

Construction begins on Mississippi River underwater sill as saltwater wedge begins to creep upriver Construction of the saltwater sill began in the river at mile marker 64 near Myrtle Grove, La.

City officials said this week that they were planning for as long as ... The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned to increase the height of an underwater sill in the Mississippi by about 25 feet.

We're about to fortify the sill that we constructed earlier this year by elevating two sides while maintaining 620-foot notch in it for our shipping to continue up and down the Mississippi River ...

Mississippi River closed to shipping traffic as work on sill begins Published: Aug. 15, 2012, 10:46 p.m. Army Corps of Engineers works to stop the advance of salt water threatening drinking water ...

This isn’t the first time sills have been built to contain saltwater movement in the Mississippi. Similar efforts took place near Myrtle Grove in 1988, 1999, 2012, 2022 and 2023 at river mile 64 ...