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The river is used for various water and paddling sports. The Rock River Water Trail is on the river from its headwaters above the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge in south central Wisconsin to the confluence with the Mississippi River at the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa 330 miles downriver. It crosses five counties in Wisconsin, six ...
Robinson Creek in Boonville, California, had highly eroded stream banks prior to initiation of a stream restoration project.. Stream restoration or river restoration, also sometimes referred to as river reclamation, is work conducted to improve the environmental health of a river or stream, in support of biodiversity, recreation, flood management and/or landscape development.
In Ancient Egypt, the rulers of the Twelfth Dynasty (c. 2000–1800 BC) undertook a far-sighted land reclamation scheme to increase agricultural output. They constructed levees and canals to connect the Faiyum with the Bahr Yussef waterway, diverting water that would have flowed into Lake Moeris and causing gradual evaporation around the lake's edges, creating new farmland from the reclaimed land.
Rock River (Mississippi River tributary), a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and Illinois; Rock River (Big Sioux River tributary), a tributary of the Big Sioux River in Minnesota and Iowa; Rock River (Lake Michigan), a tributary of Lake Michigan in Michigan; Rock River (Lake Superior), a tributary of Lake Superior in Michigan
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
But conditions in the Rock River this July could be part of a long-term trend toward more rainfall and higher water, Lincoln said. The United States Geological Survey has maintained a gauge for ...
On Feb. 18, Larry Sanford, 60, of Rockford, was found deceased in the Rock River in the area of Indian Terrace in Rockford. If anyone has information regarding these cases, Winnebago County ...
River County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) ... United States Bureau of Reclamation: 1979: Rock-fill: 578: 176: 2,400,000: 2,960,000