Mike Pearson tells us about how the low levels of the Mississippi River is impacting farmers and residents in Louisiana.
The Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards has sought a federal disaster declaration as the salt water from the Gulf of Mexico intrudes into the Mississippi River.
The salt water is impacting drinking water, cropland and tree crops which rely on irrigation from the Mississippi River.
Last winter, the Army Corps. of Engineers started working on the problem. The issues of the unique geography and dredging the river bottom is below sea level in Louisiana which allows the salt…
