Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dams and reservoirs often serve several purposes, including flood control. Karl Specht/U.S. Department of Energy The arduous task ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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Across the world, large dams stand as some of humanity’s most ambitious engineering achievements. They are built not only to generate electricity, but to control floods, support agriculture, and ...

The Glen Canyon Dam near Page, Ariz. A proposal to decommission it has support from farmers as well as environmentalists. This summer, the first of four dams on the West’s Klamath River was destroyed, ...

Water during an extreme flood event could exceed the design capacity of the dam. An "extreme" flooding event at the Mojave River Dam could put hundreds of thousands of Southern California residents ...

The Penacook Lake dam in Concord was assessed to be in poor condition in 2022. (Dana Wormald | New Hampshire Bulletin) Experts predict an increase in extreme precipitation events through the next ...

Federal officials are quietly warning that one of the country’s most important dams is approaching a tipping point not seen ...