As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape ...

The intervention comes after the department was alerted to structural concerns at the privately owned dam, officially ...

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

Engineering assessments showed that should the Senteeko Dam collapse, it would result in no more than 50 additional cubic ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Nearly a century after its construction began, the Dreher Shoals Dam — better known as the Lake Murray Dam — has been officially recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering ...

How does extreme weather affect the stability of dams? Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought. The design and construction of a dam takes into consideration all possible effects ...

Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in miniature. Cars, horses, little LEGO houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreation of the ...

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, ...

The small headline of the Engineering News article shown here belies the gravity of the disaster: the deadliest dam failure in U.S. history. The South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania was a 72-ft-tall, 931-ft ...

It was Wachusett Dam Day in Clinton Sunday, Oct. 12 and Deborah Johnson, a psychology professor from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was trying to get that perfect shot of the watery expanse that quenches the thirst ...