When East Ascension High seniors make their annual pond jump in early May, their toes wiggling under the water might sense something different about the pond bottom this year — and be a little safer.

A growing rust-red layer of algal muck has spread steadily throughout the McKinley Park pond in East Sacramento. The muck, which resembles algae or another type of water bacteria, has drawn the ...

The pond at Center Springs Park is as much as four feet deeper after a contractor cleared muck and trash that had piled up over two decades. The dredging was part of an ongoing effort to raise the ...

Join me for a quick field update and some seat time in the excavator as I head back for round 3 on this old cattle pond that was completely silted in on our new 575 acre Missouri farm. On my first two ...