Salt water from the ocean is starting to creep into the Delaware River Basin due to intensifying drought and sea level rise, according to officials.

Salt water from the ocean is starting to creep into the Delaware River Basin due to intensifying drought and sea level rise, according to officials.

What's happening? "There are alternative sources, but we don't want to be trucking in bottled water for people," Amy Shallcross, the water resource operations manager at the Delaware River Basin ...

The DRBC's Amy Shallcross said right now, the commission is releasing reservoir water from farther north into the river to push the "salt front" away from Philadelphia.

‘We are really concerned’: Salty water creeps toward Philly drinking water intake as dry conditions persist The Delaware River Basin Commission has a plan for situations like this, and could step up ...

Salt water from the ocean is starting to creep into the Delaware River Basin due to intensifying drought and sea level rise, according to officials.

Salt water from the ocean is starting to creep into the Delaware River Basin due to intensifying drought and sea level rise, according to officials.

Salt water from the ocean is starting to creep into the Delaware River Basin due to intensifying drought and sea level rise, according to officials.