(AP) — Speakers at a coastal conference say the mouth of the Mississippi River is moving north, and authorities need to prepare for it.
Paul Kemp, vice president of the Louisiana Audubon Society’s Gulf Coast Initiative, says the changes present opportunities to get more sediment into eroding coastal marshes, and to make navigation channels in the river more stable.
The Advocate reports that the state and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are studying ways to do that.
