Effort to keep oil spill at bay tips ecological balance
Reporting from Barataria Bay, La., and Los Angeles —
There’s a destructive liquid flowing into the Gulf of Mexico — and it’s not oil.
It’s the muddy fresh water of the Mississippi River, which has been released from southern Louisiana’s vast levee system and into estuaries in greater quantities than usual. The goal has been to use the rush of fresh water to keep sticky oil from reaching the sandy shores of the state.
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