New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

She blamed the corrosion on the water piped in from the area’s longtime drinking water source: the Mississippi River. It was a similar story not far away at the Black Velvet Oyster Bar and Grill.

While there are different numbers depending on the source, the Mississippi ... at the headwaters, the river’s depth drops dramatically once you get close to its mouth. The deepest point, near ...

"Louisiana has been affected in a pretty big way, as it sits at the mouth of the river and ... one issue from another." The main source of the Mississippi River is Lake Itasca, a small glacial ...

New Orleans was founded in 1718 atop the ridge that runs alongside the current channel of the Mississippi, 150 kilometers upstream of the river’s mouth ... the essential source of information ...

The mighty Mississippi River was renamed ... local officials heralding the deepening of the river's navigation channel to 50 feet between its mouth and New Orleans. Sean Duffy, executive ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The rising Mississippi River has reached the floodgates at the Bonnet Carre Spillway, prompting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to begin a test of the structure on Monday ...

Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana ... with massive rainfall directly aren’t a source of relief, either. Flow levels at the mouth of the Mississippi aren’t controlled ...

The Mississippi River flows south from its source in northern Minnesota's Lake Itasca through and along 10 states, including ...

For centuries, America’s relationship with the Mississippi has been fraught. The river ... source at Lake Itasca, Minn., the “Father of Waters” meanders some 2,350 miles to its mouth ...

Mayors along the Mississippi River have watched for years as intensifying ... Cities from the headwaters to the mouth of the Mississippi could buy into the policy, creating a pool that spreads ...

Hurricanes that hit Louisiana with massive rainfall directly aren’t a source of relief, either. Flow levels at the mouth of the Mississippi aren’t controlled by local rainfall, but by the amount of ...