DECATUR – Anyone driving across Lake Decatur on Lost Bridge Road can see the dredge working to remove sediment from the lake. Two smaller dredges are also being assembled in the Sand Creek area, near ...

LAHAINA — Retrofitting sediment basins, restoring historical loi terraces and repurposing flood plains are among several solutions the Army Corps of Engineers is considering to reduce sediment flowing ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — The second and final phase of the Parkway Sediment Basin started just a few days ago in Flagstaff. This county project builds on the city of Flagstaff’s Spruce Wash flood ...

OAKLEY, Ill. (WAND) - A prescribed burn is being done at Oakley Sediment Basin Wednesday. Macon County residents may see thick, black smoke throughout the day coming from Oakley township as a ...

A new study of the Amazon River basin shows lowland rivers that carry large volumes of sediment meander more across floodplains and create more oxbow lakes than rivers that carry less sediment. A new ...

The ecological benefits of restoring coarse sediment to the beach are profound. Kelp forests depend on rocky and cobbled ...

EAGLE COUNTY The sediment basins along Interstate 70 can do a pretty good job of preventing traction sand from polluting Black Gore Creek until they fill up, at least.Local environmental groups have ...

Los Angeles sits above an enormous bowl of sediment that alters how seismic waves move under the city (Credit: Getty Images) Southern California is frequently shaken by earthquakes. How they feel to ...

CARPINTERIA, Calif. - After the recent storms tons of sediment from debris basins in the hills are now going by truck to Carpinteria's City beach. Santa Barbara County Public Works Environmental ...

The focus of the research conference I attended last week was to revisit the mechanisms and processes that are responsible for getting terrigenous (i.e., continentally-derived) sediment from river ...

More than a hundred hydropower dams have already been built in the Amazon basin and numerous proposals for further dam constructions are under consideration. The accumulated negative environmental ...

Stream channel morphology and sediment textures are a product of the basin-wide delivery of sediment and water. Differences in sediment supply, particularly bed load, between watersheds should thus be ...