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.

As the Mississippi River water level lowers, ... the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has already begun construction on a brand-new underwater sill at approximately river mile 64 near Myrtle Grove.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineering will build an underwater sill across the bed of the Mississippi River to prevent the flow of salt water from the Gulf of Mexico into the river.

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 ...

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 ...