Bill Weir on New Orleans Saltwater Intrusion: ‘Compounding Interest of the Climate Disaster’

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WEIR: “It is because it shows the compounding interest of the climate disaster. This has happened before. In 1988 salt water got into the New Orleans drinking supply for a couple of days. And they had to sort of fight it back. So they came up with this idea, the Army Corps of Engineers, that they would have to build sills now. This is just like a speed bump of sand on the bottom to stop the saltwater which is denser than fresh from coming upstream there.”