silt

In a practice that ought to inspire progressives, those farmers deepened the delta channels and spread over their surrounding farmland the rich silt they excavated or used it to reinforce the levees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Removing silt from these spots would increase the overall flow rate through the delta, allowing even more water retention in reservoirs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The bee began digging into the fine clay-rich silt that had built up in the darker parts of the cave.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

Describing the sludge and silt in the tunnel area where Noah's body was eventually found, close to the M2 motorway, he said it "just sucks your feet under" in "absolutely freezing" conditions.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

In her palm sits a pile of sparkling black crystals, silt as fine as ash.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Premier Marinas, which owns Brighton Marina, has said dredging, which involves removing natural silts that settle in the marina basin, is needed to ensure safe navigation for boats.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

The silts and sand are a "valuable local resource" that contractors and local governments use as fill material in residential and industrial projects, the Army Corps said.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 17, 2019

About 70% of the hull has survived, well-preserved in the Nile silts.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2019

Lake-clogging soil and silts are being loosed from newly deforested lands far upstream, and scientists also warn that climate change is upsetting Himalayan rainfall patterns.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2016

But Hess’s readings showed that the ocean floor offered anything but the gooey smoothness of ancient silts.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The system is also 70% silted or clogged after over a century of use, Mr Bonoan told news outlet ABS-CBN News.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

The lagoon didn’t come into existence until about the 16th century, when the rivers feeding into the Atlantic silted, and long sandbanks grew along the coastline.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

But never have the lakes been silted as they are today,” says Simiyu.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

“All this was silted up, and you couldn’t see anywhere,” said Mr. Blonsky, pointing to the refurbished shoreline with the pride of a general contractor.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2017

It was close to the westernmost of the Nile’s seven mouths, the Canopic, but far enough away to avoid having its harbor silted up by the river’s outflow.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

Geographers had already noticed that rivers tend to avulse at the foot of mountains, where slopes change dramatically and sediment settles out, silting up the bed.

From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2021

Thanks to silting and reclamation in the tidal Liffey, Usher’s Island itself has for centuries been joined to the mainland.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2021

The Chesapeake has struggled for decades from overfishing, silting and pollution, especially from runoff from urban areas and farms.

From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2014

One mile down the hill, the road crosses the Anacostia River, forever altered by two centuries of silting and an enormous Army Corps of Engineers flood-control project.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2012

Yes, everything was once water, but the Earth formed out of the oceans by a natural process—similar, he thought, to the silting he had observed at the delta of the Nile.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan