Louisiana residents are on high alert for flash flooding, as forecasters predict heavy rainfall from showers and ...

The slow underground creep of saltwater toward a major drinking water aquifer is stirring debate on the board meant to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Aquifers deep underground supply the drinking water for most of the capital region. As the freshwater is pumped out of the ground, salt water begins to creep closer to those ...

In 2013, Baton Rouge Water Co. spent $3 million to drill twin wells along North Street to intercept underground salt water ...

Concerns about salt contaminating Baton Rouge's underground drinking water supply has prompted regulators to order a sweeping — and some say difficult-to-accomplish — look at pumping and ...