Sentence examples for silting in from inspiring English sources

As the overflow swamp of the only remaining distributary in the delta — the only place other than the mouth of the Mississippi where silt can go — the Atchafalaya is silting in.

Deforestation there may possibly have led to ruinous silting in downstream reaches, although the contribution of this process to the eventual decline of civilization on the Euphrates and the Indus remains largely a matter of guesswork.

Breakwaters extend from the west and east sides of Limón Bay; the west breakwater protects the harbour against severe gales, and the east one reduces silting in the canal channel.

The most significant result is the absence of silting in the transport of water.

These channel and floodplain deposits filled in and flattened out the off-Mound settlements, blanketing the Pre-Hellenistic topography and silting in a long active port.

This could be placed with standard pumping equipment and was able to fill the bottom slab cells from a single pouring point in an adjacent cell without showing significant washout, or suspension of solids silting in any point of the concrete surface.

Her snappy style had become silted in waft.

When that storm left huge chunks of silt in Sandwich harbor, sandbars developed.

Sand sources along the ancestral Rocky Mountains supplied eolian sand and silt in great quantities.

The county agreed in 1989 to clear the silt in a more expensive but environmentally friendly way.

And all that fine sand backs up as silt in the San Gabriel River's dams, requiring constant maintenance.