Meeting set for Dec. 3, city representatives and Barr Engineering Co. to be present for public discussion of planned dam ...

On the Blue Nile in Ethiopia rises one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in Africa’s history—the Grand Ethiopian ...

Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending. Storms and floods have intensified in both frequency ...

The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. Managing these flood ...

Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

A century after a dam burst in Dolgarrog, killing 16 people, the Welsh village still lives with the legacy that reshaped UK ...

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The Kimball Street dam’s removal shouldn’t affect Elgin’s water supply if Fox River levels drop, but more erosion study needed.

Long before he became an associate professor of Civil Engineering and an expert on the effects of earthquakes on dams, Richard “Richie” Armstrong was a young man in Canada, dreaming about California.

When completed in 1930, the structure — stretching 1.5 miles long and rising 210 feet high — was the largest earthen dam in ...