Silt-laden water spills over the top of Matilija Dam, operated by the Casitas Municipal Water District, near Ventura, California. Its reservoir is almost full of sediment, and a new plan for removing ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- The sediment flowing down the Mississippi River is a result of how the land is used, but stopping the sediment won't be an easy task. From the end of the Civil War to the 1930s, ...

THAT sedimentation occurs isn't the big deal. The big deal is that in most places, dams were built at roughly the same time, which brings the issue to multiple dams at roughly the same time. The scale ...

The Pensacola and Perdido Bay Estuary Program will use NOAA grant funds to locate the many sources of sediments flowing into Pensacola Bay. State studies indicate that 90% of sediments flowing into ...

The federal government is accepting public comments on a plan to increase the size of Bartlett Dam and Bartlett Lake on the Verde River, an effort to bring new water supplies to metro Phoenix as ...

Anyone who has visited Lake Steinhagen or fished in the Attoyac River has witnessed the sedimentation problem, Alders said. "A lot of sedimentation occurs over here where our rivers puts sedimentation ...

The federal government is accepting public comments on a plan to increase the size of Bartlett Dam and Bartlett Lake on the Verde River, an effort to bring new water supplies to metro Phoenix as ...