Barges filled with rock are anchored in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet in Jan. near Bayou La Loutre, ready to begin the process of closing the waterway. The closure is ...

Mississippi River Gulf Outlet work done NEW ORLEANS, July 24 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has completed blocking off the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet with 352,000 tons of rock.

The destructive Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was closed to marine traffic last July amid great fanfare as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a rock barrier across Bayou La Loutre ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, nicknamed the MR-GO, had overwhelming negative effects on our land when it provided a direct line of saltwater to areas naturally brackish or fresh.

They laid a pile of rocks across the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet at Bayou La Loutre in 2009, closing off a waterway that was designed to improve New Orleans’ competitiveness ...

A saltwater wedge in the Mississippi River is moving toward New Orleans much slower than expected, officials said Thursday. The Army Corps of Engineers previously estimated that New Orleans was ...

An approximately 7,500-ft-long floodwall that closes off the Mississippi River Gulf outlet in 2014. (Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg News) The new legislation “marks a crucial milestone for ...

NEW ORLEANS — A coalition of scientists, environmentalists and politicians has urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close a shipping channel that scientists say contributed to the ...

The Mississippi River is truly ... these various tributaries once sent as much as 290 million metric tons of dirt to the Gulf of Mexico ... the last unclosed outlet, aside from the river’s ...