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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 ...
It calls for the acceleration of the implementation by the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) of the design and construction of the Tijuana River Diversion project to capture and ...
AROMA PARK – Kankakee County officials, local state politicians and river enthusiasts gathered Tuesday morning to mark the beginning of the sediment removal project on the Kankakee River at the Aroma ...
In this March 8, 2018 file photo, workers open the gates of the Bonnet Carre spillway, a river diversion structure, which diverts water from the rising Mississippi River, above right, to Lake ...
Gov. Jeff Landry ordered a 90-day pause last week on the nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, which would direct water and land-building alluvium from the Mississippi River into ...
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 ...
Jeff Landry ordered a 90-day pause last week on the nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project, which would direct water and land-building alluvium from the Mississippi River into ...
But more than a quarter of that spending, $573 million, is tied to one project, the Mid-Barataria Sediment ... River Delta, that found that 83% of respondents supported the diversion project.
NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Two new surveys released on April 15 show widespread bipartisan support for reconnecting the Mississippi River to its wetlands through sediment diversion projects, ...