For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

Yuba Water Agency officials on Monday announced that Tim Truong, the agency’s chief dam safety engineer, was elected to the board of directors for the U.S. Society on Dams. According to its website, ...

Oklahoma City’s Overholser Dam suffers from floodgates that won't open, concrete buttresses that are cracked and support beams that are crumbling. If the dam failed during a record rainstorm, the ...

Two dams are being watched closely by state Department of Ecology experts as persistent rain has threatened to compromise ...

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 ...

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 ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (April 8, 2014) -- Water is essential for survival, and in southern Afghanistan, survival hinges on the 250-mile-long Arghandab River and its reservoir. The reservoir was created ...

(Reuters) - Engineers have reduced the risk of a dam bursting and damaging a large Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine, a senior Russian official was quoted as saying by TASS ...

Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches. At 63, the ...

As part of a monthlong series on America's infrastructure, Weekend Edition takes a closer look at the nation's dams. Nearly 80,000 dams across the country help control floods, provide hydroelectric ...

Workers at the dam still producing electricity, grouting dam, mitigating breach. — -- Employees at the Mosul Dam in Iraq, which is under the control of a brutal group of Islamist fighters, are ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Police in Ethiopia said Friday that the engineer who had been in charge of an enormous dam being built in the northwest of the country had taken his own life. The body of the ...