Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

Iowa researchers have found that farm ponds — designed to control flooding and curb the amount of soil and organic materials moving downstream — are filling up with sediment more quickly than expected ...

The Bureau of Reclamation last week revised its data on the amount of water stored in Lake Powell, with a new, lower tally taking into account a 4% drop in the reservoir’s total available capacity ...

When the Waukegan Park District built the pond in 1969 in what is now Bevier Park, it was 100% water with no sediment. Now, it is 39% sediment and 61% water. By the time the sediment is removed this ...

Warm weather and little rainfall has created perfect conditions for toxic algal blooms on New Zealand’s West Coast. “[Phormidium] occurs naturally and year round in many waterways, but when rivers are ...

Dams' original storage capacity lost to sediment by 2050: 1.65 trillion cubic meters, roughly equal to the combined annual water use of India, China, Indonesia, France and Canada; Losses undermine ...

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 ...