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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...