A spell of dry weather this fall has contributed to significant movements in the salt line of the Delaware River, which runs through Wilmington, Delaware; Camden, New Jersey; Philadelphia; and other cities and towns on the East Coast.
The marked shift poses a danger to clean drinking water and to the integrity of infrastructure, if it continues unabated, a spokesperson for the Delaware River Basin Commission has told The Epoch Times.
The salt line, also referred to as the salt front, is that point in the river where freshwater mingles with saltwater at a density high enough for the resulting water to be undrinkable without processing….