The river was also used for the transport of goods but by 1948 had become too silted to allow either use.

A pond, named Rabindrasarobar, is now a silted up marsh.

The two of them leaned against a massive timber that overlooked the silted harbor.

The reservoir gets silted over the time and needs to be desilted at regular intervals.

Due to the lack of regular maintenance, the canal has become silted and narrower over the years.

He would also re-excavate silted irrigation canals with a band of workers.

I am closed within a high and unused room, a silted backwater in the east tower's highest floor.

The ice in the river shifted and cracked over the gray, thickly silted water beneath.

This lack of barge repairs led the creek to become silted and derelict.

Efforts have been made over the years to cut channels but they eventually become silted or overgrown with papyrus again.

When the river is in flood stage, its silted delta outlets are unable to carry off the high volume of water.

This will be the last one, he said to himself as he moved into the heavfly silted entrance hall.

Upon entry into the system, he encountered a heavily silted system of brick construction.

As clouds ran the sky, I dropped behind again, placed the meat beside me, and fell on my knees to wash in the silted water.

He spent the rest of the day downriver of the little city and its silted bay, searching along the shore for the boy.

Silted matter in the bronchial tubes provided evidence of inhalation of water.

The Glenmore water treatment plant had difficulty treating the heavily silted water.

The stick fell in silted sand, stuck.

It had neither a paved road nor telegraph service, and the harbor was too silted to permit the access of shipping.

"Possibly we touched / The silted bottom," she says in a strangely detached response to this episode.

What life there was, was amorphous, useless: lugworms and silted shrimp.

Their spotlights ebbed away in the silted darkness.

His voice was softer than usual, perhaps because he did not want to offend the ears of the English gentry beyond the silted creek.

'I've panned there, in a silted pool after heavy rain brought water flooding through the gully.

Silted rivers, swamps, beels and oxbow lakes forms the area.