There has long been a concern among civil engineers that dams could fail days or weeks after an earthquake, even if no immediate evidence of a problem surfaced. Their concern has focused on possible ...

FLAT ROCK - The National Park Service has approved nearly $1.1 million for repairs at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site's Front Lake dam, which dates back to the 1850s. The funds will be ...

Today, there are over 30,000 dams in the world. Most of them are created according to standard projects and are designed to help the population with agriculture. But one of them is completely unique ...

The massive failure of the Oroville Dam’s main spillway in February involved two dozen potential design and maintenance problems, including thin concrete, inadequate reinforcing steel and weaknesses ...

ROCHESTER — Design work will continue on the proposal to replace Silver Lake Dam alongside future dredging. “This is not the vote right now to take a wrecking ball to the dam,” Rochester City Council ...

A team investigating the Oroville Dam spillway breach in February said it has not seen evidence that a comprehensive review of its construction and design has ever been conducted since it was built ...

Early this year, workers at the Wanapum Dam in central Washington state discovered that a 50-year-old mathematical error, made during dam design, had caused a 65-ft-long fracture. The 8,367-ft-long ...

On Sunday, Feb. 12, California officials ordered the immediate, mandatory evacuation of 188,000 residents from towns below the Oroville Dam. Two days later, when federal and state officials deemed the ...

The proposed approximate location where a nature-like fish passage could be attached to the downstream side of the Mirror Pond Dam just north of the Newport Avenue bridge in Bend. For more than a ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) Board of Trustees could vote Thursday (April 7) on a $1.48 million pre-design services contract for the removal of Horseshoe ...

Design flaws, construction shortcomings and maintenance errors caused the Oroville Dam spillway to break apart in February, according to an independent analysis by Robert Bea for the Center for ...