With the Mid-Barataria diversion project mired in court and in controversy, there are no obvious, easy paths forward. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - The nearly $3 billion Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion project along the Mississippi River, intended to stave off coastal land loss in southeastern Louisiana, is seen during a flyover with ...

The diversion project as originally planned 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.

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 ...