The U.S. boasts some of the world's largest dams including Oroville Dam, Hoover Dam, Dworshak dam, and many others. These dams have played a vital role for water management, power generation, and ...

M R. WEGMANN'S treatise has been before the public for so long that we imagine its general features will be more or less familiar to all who are engaged in the domain of waterworks engineering. The ...

Faced with public outrage after its second mining dam collapse in four years killed at least 240 people in Brazil, Vale SA misrepresented what it had done to shut down its riskiest dams, a review of ...

Norway’s rockfill dams hold billions of cubic metres of valuable water in place high in the mountains. Behind every dam stands an extensive safety ...

In May 1948, floodwaters on the Columbia River overtopped the cofferdam where construction was underway on McNary Lock and Dam. This flood, one of the largest on record, was one of many documented in ...

South Carolina regulators who are charged with protecting the public from hazardous dams made just a dozen enforcement cases against dam owners in 21 years, records show. And during one decade-long ...