Saltwater Is Slowly Creeping Up The Mississippi River And That’s Bad News For Residents

An aerial view shots the Diamond Lady, a once majestic riverboat, resting in mud at Riverside Park Marina in Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park along the Mississippi River on October 19, 2022 in Memphis, Tennessee. PHOTO BY SCOTT OLSON VIA GETTY IMAGES

The Mississippi River has faced historically low water levels all summer, revealing all sorts of hidden relics. However, with the river bed now lower than the Gulf of Mexico, saltwater woes have arisen.

“Once the river flow falls below 300,000 cubic feet per second in the Mississippi River, we start to see saltwater creep up the river,” Matt Roe, public affairs specialist for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans, told AccuWeather.