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 ...

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 ...

A technical report that models the flow rates of water and sediment from the Mississippi River is now at the center of a new controversy around the massive $3 billion Mid-Barataria Diversion ...

The Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District’s Board of Directors approved a contract with a Nebraska company to remove sediment at the district’s diversion dam in Lincoln County.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...