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Gantry cranes were washed away, silt and boulders jammed the headworks, and floodwaters entered the power house, knocking the plant offline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The army has been working for days at other locations to clear away silt and debris to gain access to the tunnels.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

After an hour-long search, documents did emerge from beneath the silt -- but they belonged to a neighbour and were duly returned.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

In the recent floods, Sahariah says, continuous heavy rainfall in Upper Assam and neighbouring Nagaland's Mon district triggered severe flooding and large-scale silt deposition in Sivasagar, Charaideo and Jorhat.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The primary diver descends through the dark and cold until he hits bottom, stirring up a thick cloud of silt and sediment.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

Piers where boats used to berth are now silted up, separated from flowing water by several yards.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2021

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

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

Malacca’s port, once one of the richest on earth, silted up, and the city became a historical footnote.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2020

Ashes drifted into the hollow places in my bones and silted up my brainpan.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

With two-thirds of the Dutch population living below sea level, droughts can quickly become an acute problem in the Netherlands, leading to rivers silting up and hampering water traffic.

From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2022

"Slowly but surely, care provision is silting up as a result of either higher levels of demand or higher levels of sickness," he says.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2022

After the fence went up, the society turned to repairing the stream, which was both eroding and silting, to the detriment of the habitat.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021

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

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