Floating about 500 feet offshore of Illinois Beach State Park, Hillary Glandon tightened her scuba goggles, grabbed a small masonite plate from a nearby kayak and dove beneath the Lake Michigan ...

Sedimentation has reduced the water capacity at Bartlett and Horseshoe reservoirs by about 50,000 acres collectively. The ...

"The lake has been choking on past pollution and toxic blooms for decades. Thanks to new state investment, there's finally momentum toward action." ...

The sediment-heavy river flows south into New Mexico before jogging into Utah, then it joins the Colorado River close to the Arizona border. The confluence is submerged under Lake Powell.

He said the 1,000-acre Morrow Lake impoundment may have been collecting sediment since the dam was built in 1941, about 80 years before the drawdown. “As far as we know, this reservoir hasn’t ...

New research published Friday offers hope that Perseverance Rover's Mars sediment samples could reveal traces of life - if it ever existed on Mars. The rover has already confirmed an ancient lake ...

Without a sediment management plan, Lake Powell will cease to exist. If nothing is done regarding the sediment flowing into Lake Powell, it will take approximately 750 years to be considered a mud ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for dredging the Cleveland shipping channel, but would prefer to use the sediment to cap a two-square mile mass of toxic sediment in Lake Erie ...

Researchers, some of them in San Diego, have recovered lake sediment samples from an Antarctic lake that’s sealed under 3,500 feet of ice.

A four-year field experiment conducted on the shores of restored Lake Mustijärv in Viljandi, Estonia, has revealed that recycling phosphorus-rich lake sediments back to agriculture could have ...

Sediment deposited at Crawford Lake, a small but deep body of water in Canada's Ontario province, provides unmistakable evidence that Earth entered a new human-driven geological chapter ...

The sediment study is critical to an acquisition deal between the city of Cedar Rapids and Alliant Energy, which once used the lake as a cooling pond for the since-demolished Sixth Street NE power ...