New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed a state of emergency on Friday in response to saltwater intrusion impacting drinking water in southern Louisiana.
page."We will continue to work with our partners locally and state-wide as we closely monitor this situation."
Storm clouds threaten over the Mississippi River and downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 25, 2020. City Mayor LaToya Cantrell declared a state of emergency on Friday in response to the creeping saltwater wedge traveling up the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico.Cantrell's office said that no water supplies outside of Plaquemines have been affected by the saltwater wedge. Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency in July for the parish.
Edwards said in an update on Friday that the state was days away from"requesting an emergency declaration from the federal government," according to a
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