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

Back when it first happened, we covered the Oroville Dam near-disaster. Heavier-than-expected rainfall in California back in early 2017 led to running the dam’s primary spillway at much ...

The Salmon Creek Dam is receiving some much-deserved recognition as the first constant angle concrete arch dam in the country. It is now being dedicated as a National Historic Civil Engineering ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...