NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Along the Mississippi River in Wisconsin, a man-made sand dune becomes a weekend recreation spot. Boaters park along the shoreline in a cove at Crater Island, one of a few ...

That has posed hazards for shipping, but it is also acting as a natural river diversion, delivering sediment into a nearby bay in Breton Sound on the river’s east bank. For that reason ...

A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given birth to new wetlands. While that small delta is dwarfed by what’s washing away all around it, researchers have gained ...

The pond was formed by a dam on the Mill River that has in some form or another been altering the water’s flow since the mid-1700s. On this day, a sluice gate has been opened at the side of the dam to ...

The diversion project would funnel up to 75,000 cubic feet per second of water and sediment from the Mississippi River into the Barataria Basin to rebuild lost wetlands. It was projected to build ...

One such effort involves diverting sediment, freshwater, and nutrients from the river to rebuild land that has eroded over the years. Massive diversion complexes, including channels and outfall areas, ...

an effort to channel Mississippi River sediment into the bay to mimic the river’s land-building powers. However, critics argue that the diversion, which would take up to 75,000 cubic feet of ...

A flow of sediment from a decades-old river diversion has accidentally given birth to new wetlands. While that small delta is dwarfed by what’s washing away all around it, researchers have ...