Many power plants have sediment retention ponds that require control of pH for the effluent. The following guidelines for fossil plant sediment pond pH control will help you design a robust system ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

Many people mistake the small pond at the easterly side of the lake for being another small lake. In a sense it is, but it serves a very powerful purpose. The sediment pond impounds water from Buck ...

Many suburban neighborhoods have retention ponds to manage stormwater runoff volume and mitigate any potential pollution from this runoff. Over time, these ponds can fill with sediment and other ...

The BET budget committee finished its 2014-15 budget deliberations last week. The budget is now before the full BET for a March 18 public hearing and a March 20 vote. Some express displeasure that ...

When the Waukegan Park District built the pond in 1969 in what is now Bevier Park, it was 100% water with no sediment. Now, it is 39% sediment and 61% water. By the time the sediment is removed this ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series on the restoration of Mill Pond. Part two will run in next week’s Independent and provide more in-depth coverage of the pond’s history and the ...

BOISE, Idaho—In a story April 22 about The Blackfoot Bridge Mine, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Monsanto Co. is doing a complete redesign of the water management system. The company ...

LENOX — Woods Pond is a human-made environment with a human-made environmental problem. The 53-acre pond was created when a dam was built across the Housatonic River in Lenox Dale in the late 19th ...

PITTSFIELD — A major “reclamation project” at Springside Pond will fix a dam, remove sediment, and introduce a number of improvements to make the pond more accessible. During a presentation Tuesday at ...