Picture three-and-a-half football fields with earth piled onto them — piled as tall as the Empire State Building. That’s how much sediment flows into Tuttle Creek Lake each year. After decades of this ...

As the name might imply, Kansas' Tuttle Creek Lake — which is actually a man-made reservoir whose construction was authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1938 — consists primarily of, well, lots of ...

Sediment buildup has reduced the water storage capacity of Tuttle Creek Lake by about half since its completion in 1962. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is testing a new water injection dredging ...

This is a 1964 map of Tuttle Creek Lake from the map collection of Operations Project Manager Brian McNulty, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Since this map was printed, so much sediment has ...

In dry years, Tuttle Creek Lake and other reservoirs keep the Kansas River flowing strong enough to provide drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. But these manmade lakes are disappearing ...