Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S., has made national headlines recently. The reservoir which lies across Nevada and Arizona is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. And its water ...

On the crisp winter mornings of Jan. 23 and 29, the quiet, snow-draped landscape surrounding Libby Dam, in Libby, Montana, transformed into a living classroom. For those two days, the dam’s massive ...

Record-breaking flooding in April was a reminder for lawmakers, dam safety advocates and engineers of the vulnerabilities ...

Syphon Reservoir, located in Irvine, Calif., will undergo a significant capital improvement upgrade with engineers COWI and GFT securing a $25M contract for construction management. The Irvine Ranch ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has postponed further testing of the Seven Oaks Dam near San Bernardino. The dam was to undergo a series of high pressure releases all this week. Engineers are closing ...

A final report from an independent forensic team investigating the May 2020 collapse of the Edenville and Sanford Dams in north central Michigan confirmed that the failures of the two dams built in ...

Study by civil engineers finds that the history of the Jagersfontein dam deviates from best engineering practice. On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, ...

Record flooding at the Cheboygan Dam has led the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to mandate engineering assessments and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America's dams are aging, and in many areas heavy rain storms are happening more often. Dam engineers who have studied recent ...

PANGUITCH, Utah (KUTV) — State engineers spoke with KUTV about the inspection process to ensure safety for dams throughout the state after one cracked at Panguitch Lake. Dams are designed individually ...