A project to improve water quality for farms in the Lower Boise River Valley is underway in Parma. A groundbreaking ceremony took place this morning, marking the start of construction for sediment ...

BAYOU PIGEON, LA (Louisiana First) — The Atchafalaya Basin puts millions of Louisiana residents at risk of losing everything when it floods, due in part to the constant buildup of sediment. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 – A U.S. Department of Agriculture study shows that conservation practices applied to cultivated cropland in the Ohio-Tennessee River Basin are reducing losses of sediment, ...

Caroline Fortunato (Biology) American University: Owen McDonough (Biology) College of William and Mary Urban sprawl places watersheds and associated streams and rivers under increased stress in terms ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fed by dozens of streams in the Sierra Nevada, 37 trillion gallons of water slosh over Lake Tahoe's silty floor. Over millions of years, sediment has emptied into the lake, filling its bottom. The ...