A leaking dam that some Letcher County residents feared could collapse and flood homes hadn't been inspected by state regulators in more than a decade. The agency that oversees surface mining had ...

JACKSON — A lawsuit filed last year alleging that two coal companies allowed a sediment holding pond to breach, exacerbating flooding of Quicksand Creek, has swelled to 72 plaintiffs, plus a second ...

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 ...

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 ...

Signs of a 1755 earthquake that was strong enough to topple steeples and chimneys in Boston can be seen in a sediment core drawn from eastern Massachusetts' Sluice Pond, according to a new report.

Shallow mining ponds dominate the landscape where a stream once ran through the rainforest in the La Pampa region of the Madre de Dios, Peru. The degraded streams now carry waste sediment from these ...

According to the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), on top of the many natural ponds scattered throughout the state, it also has 76,000 urban stormwater ...