MILLS — A federal agency plans to lower the water level of Guernsey Reservoir to prepare for an annual silt run that sends water to irrigation districts and that may also be used for hydropower. The ...

The accumulation of sediment in reservoirs across the American West represents a significant challenge for water resource ...

Wyoming’s Shoshone River below Willwood Diversion Dam is still so roiled with thick silt that it’s impossible to know if any fish or aquatic life has survived the three-weeklong spill. “Until things ...

CASPER – The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Mills will be lowering the water level in Guernsey Reservoir in preparation for the annual silt run. “The silt run is an operation ...

Nora Beer of the University of Vermont Agroecology Institute. aboard the UVM research vessel Marcelle Melosira, deploys a Secchi disk to measure the transparency of silt-laden water near the mouth of ...