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• n  mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
• v  become chocked with silt
  The river silted up

• And some hydrologists say that by trapping silt the dam could actually make downstream riverbanks more vulnerable to flooding.
• We have not suffered the silt and smoke of overindustrializationyet.
• Environmentalists also contend that elimination of the silt flow has increased the rate of erosion along the Mediterranean coast adjoining the Nile Delta.

• silt up

News & Articles

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• Lower Salford plans pond dredging at Dan Roth Park
  The muddy silt that has accumulated over the years in the pond at Dan Roth Park in Harleysville will be removed this year.
  June 13, 2013 - Souderton Independent
• Flash Flood Cleanup in Spanish Springs
  Hundreds of Spanish Springs residents are cleaning up Tuesday after flash floods hit their neighborhood Monday afternoon. Water, mud, and silt have covered roadways, backyards, and lawns and some homeowners and even the county are left wondering where to start.
  June 12, 2013 - KOLO 8 Reno
• Makiki stream gets dredged
  Neighbors in Makiki are happy to see city crews hard at work clearing vegetation and silt built up in Makiki stream. They're scared of what happened in 2006, when the stream overflowed trapping residents in their homes and tearing down walls along the stream. "The water basically ran through my house. We became the Makiki Stream basically, and it was total chaos, total chaos," said Makiki ...
  June 10, 2013 - KITV Honolulu