The Department of Natural Resources has announced the final results of a long-term regional study to assess how well sediment traps work to improve fish populations in rivers throughout the state. A ...

Have you ever noticed that extra little leg of gas piping running to your furnace or water heater and wondered what the heck happened? It's called a sediment trap. Sediment traps are intentionally ...

POTTSTOWN >> The public has until Aug. 8 to comment on a plan to control stormwater for the next five years. The plan is required to obtain a permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental ...

Re: "Inventor pitches coastal saving device, " A-13, March 15. Mark Waller recently reported that Webster Pierce Jr., an inventor from Cut Off has obtained a patent for a plastic device that he ...

EAGLE COUNTY The sediment basins along Interstate 70 can do a pretty good job of preventing traction sand from polluting Black Gore Creek until they fill up, at least.Local environmental groups have ...

sediment trap, but was not in a position to move forward and had to give it up. Association President Waldo Peterson told the board that it was just a sponsorship, with no cost to thetownship. He also ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 55, No. 2 (March 2010), pp. 725-739 (15 pages) The extent to which sinking particles disaggregate and exchange with surrounding material affects the efficiency of ...

There were no ribbons to be cut, no ground to be broken. But Mayor Pam Iorio still wanted to celebrate the building of a device _ which looked like a big storm drain _ on the banks of the Hillsborough ...

Ioana Stefanescu, a UW Ph.D. candidate in geology and geophysics, descends into the Natural Trap Cave earlier this summer. Stefanescu collected sediment in the cave to study past climate conditions.

The effects of microplastics on our health and the environment are being rigorously studied all across the world. Researchers are identifying microplastic sources and their potential routes to the ...

Inshore turbid reefs on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) are exposed to high and fluctuating sediment loads normally associated with poor reef growth, but many have high coral cover (>30%) and diversity ...