Sediment Load

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The high suspended sediment load gives this river a distinctive brown color

Solid particles produced by weathering and transported through a channel by stream flow. The sediment load may be divided into two components: that which is suspended within the water column, suspended sediment, and that which is moved along the bed of a channel, bedload.