Word: silting
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...told reporters gleefully, "On the road out here, a veteran shouted at me, 'You'd better get in, General, or we'll both be back in the Army." After a look at Lake Mead, Ike asked how soon it would fill up with silt if no precautionary measures were taken. When the guide told him 350 years, a nearby tourist cracked: "Hey, Ike, do you think you'll be President by then?" Said Ike: "Brother, all I'm trying to do is get through...
...loud, dirty, infinitely energetic heartland of U.S. industrial power. Pennsylvania's gentle green hills had been ripped open, and out spilled the guts of America-coal and iron. The sparkling rivers, where men had once drunk clear water from cupped hands, ran black with the silt of progress. The hillsides were blighted by the drab, unpainted shacks of company towns...
...evacuees hauled off what they could, trying to decide between the television set and the washing machine. Householders filled their basements with water to equalize the river pressure and save the foundations. Gas station attendants pumped their tanks full of water to keep out the river's silt...
...Needed. It is easy to add to a soil the chemicals that plants need, but every farmer knows that this is not enough. The soil must also have a good "structure," i.e., its particles must cling together in crumblike "aggregates." Without such crumbs, a soil containing much clay or silt will "slake" when wet, turning into sticky mud. Then as it dries, it develops a hard, dense crust that kills seedlings, resists tillage, and keeps needed water and air from penetrating the surface...
...Krilium-treated soil, according to Monsanto, is easier to cultivate because it does not get sticky even when very wet. It holds more water than untreated soil, and so resists drought. No hard crust forms, and no clods; intractable clay or silt soil treated with Krilium behaves like a mellow loam full of organic matter...