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The dam was silted up because the surrounding roads had not been properly surfaced, says resident engineer Cass Bhamiee.
Aerial surveys revealed that a small Rhine tributary had once carved an island here, and the silted channel was promptly dredged.
But, as the main waterways became silted up and were impoldered, the character of the city changed.
Through the logging practice streams silted up, and the waters were warmed to a level unsuitable for the survival of fry.
Of course, we would be told that the river has now silted up and that at low tide it would be impossible.
The defendants erected ferry terminals in the Thames, and, as a result, parts of the river bed silted up.
Old Goa remained the colony's capital until I759, when the Mandovi River silted up.
I would mix the soil in the heavily silted water of the Mekong River as a way to spread this handful of soil throughout Vietnam.
Local people cultivate tapioca, rice and vegetables on the heavily silted riverbed.
What was once a sluggish, silted and overgrown stream has been transformed into a gushing torrent thanks to the hard work of a conservation team.
A pump is usually required to remove silted site water arising in dewatered work areas.
Fish are taken from the river in places where it is badly silted and basically what happens is that they are stripped and hatched to the ova stage.
A simple settling pond was built, but heavily silted water entered the river and was seen 1.5 miles downstream.
Many devastated homes needed major rebuilding, and the wells providing the water supply were damaged, uncared for and partly silted up.
Contributing factors are drainage channels that have silted in and no longer shed the collected water.
In order to prevent silt from entering the stream a second pump is used to remove silted water from the work area inside the cofferdams.
They live in rocky areas along the continental slope, near boulder fields and on silted or cobbled bottoms, at depths between 25 and 900 metres.
The work was eventually stopped, and the dredged channel is probably already completely silted up.
Thousands of silted stock-ponds, power and drinking water reservoirs, and miles of muddy flooding rivers show the effect of this devegetation.
These early ditches had silted up a number of times and at one stage, metalworking had taken place in the sheltered area provided by the ditch banks.
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The harbour has silted up, and only a small piece of the walls is traceable.
It had been so silted up that it appeared to be only about half that depth.
I allude only to the head of Glen Roy and Kilfinnin as silted up.
A number of lakes then existed which have since been silted up.
These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here.
Since Chellean times all three rivers have silted up their channels.
Now it has become so silted up as to be practically useless.
At the bar where the sand has silted, a few steamers were lying.
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