While mere inches at the headwaters, the river’s depth drops dramatically once you get close to its mouth. The deepest point, near Algiers Point in New Orleans, is about 200 feet. Most Popular ...

A salty Mississippi River mouth is a wakeup for New Orleans Sediment and mixed river water are seen as a tanker ship moves upriver in Plaquemines Parish, La. Saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has ...

This image was originally prepared by and printed in the U.S. Civil War era newspaper the "New York Illustrated News" (1859-1864). The image "Burning of Two Rebel Barkentines Loaded with Cotton, While ...

This is the third year in a row that saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico has crept up the Mississippi River. This phenomenon, known as saltwater intrusion, occurs when the rate of flow in the river dips ...

The main source of the Mississippi River is Lake Itasca, a small glacial lake in Minnesota. From there, the river runs through to the Gulf of Mexico. But the effects of the drought could expand ...

New oil sheen off Mississippi mouth not believed ... pipelines off the mouth of the Mississippi River have still not found the source of an estimated 1.1 million gallons of oil ...

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From its source at Lake Itasca, Minn., the “Father of Waters” meanders some 2,350 miles to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. The river’s drainage basin covers about 1.2 million square miles ...

The Army Corps of Engineers has completed deepening the Mississippi River to 50 feet from its mouth to the Huey P. Long Bridge. Six dredges continue to deepen portions of the river between the ...

The Mississippi River flows south from its source in northern Minnesota's Lake Itasca through and along 10 states, including ...

New Orleans was founded in 1718 atop the ridge that runs alongside the current channel of the Mississippi, 150 kilometers upstream of the river’s mouth. The city’s earliest residents found ...

BOOTHVILLE, La. – Just off the Mississippi River in southeast Louisiana, an 18-wheeler trailer filled with white cylinders whirred as workers prepared to turn the machine off for the day.