Researchers are tracking how much sediment has been excavated since the river cut its new path. They hope to share the information with other communities with aging, at-risk dams.

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 ...

BOYNE FALLS, MI — Federal regulators have shot down Boyne City and Charlevoix County’s attempt to intervene in a relicensing ...

The lifespan and performance of a dam are not determined by engineering alone. Rather, they hinge critically on the health and sustainability of the watershed ...

Stagnant water from a tributary of the Kinneytown Dam gives off a stench that keeps residents in the North Fourth Street area of Ansonia from opening their windows in the summer heat. While below, at ...

A skoa Ibisate, a geographer specializing in fluvial geomorphology, has analyzed how the disappearance of the Olloki dam affects sediment transport. Ibisate concluded that the volume of pebbles ...

A set of Glen Canyon Dam pipes that were eroding from the inside have been recoated — two months early and under budget, ...

Created in 1963 by constructing the Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell was intended to be a critical water storage reservoir for the arid western United States. Sixty-one years later, sedimentation has ...

An iconic dam in Plainfield, standing for over 140 years may soon be removed as local officials examine its contribution to ...

“These wetlands slow the flow of the water downstream, which helps to regulate soil erosion, which in turn helps to prevent sedimentation in the dams of the Lesotho Highlands Water Projec ...