`Mountain of sand` spreads across farms after floods
(World News USA)

OMAHA (AP) - Eastern Nebraska landowners are seeking new solutions for a millions-year-old phenomenon. Tons of sand, sediment and silt - some in dunes as high as 10 feet - have been scattered across the eastern half to two-thirds of the state by the March flooding. In some areas, washed-out cornstalks are 3 to 4 feet deep. Tree limbs are in piles and topsoil has been washed away. `We have a mountain of sand piled up,` Valley farmer Ryan Ueberrhein said to the Omaha World-Herald. Sediment from Nebraska´s rivers and streams has been deposited on nearby flooded land for millions of years. Now U.S. Department of Agriculture officials, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension specialists and...