The second deadliest dam failure in U.S. history happened suddenly. The St. Francis Dam was a 205-ft-high concrete gravity arch dam located in San Francisquito Canyon, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

An interim report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials reports that a clear factor in the failures of two dams built in the 1920s was static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, ...

Case studies highlight the role geotechnical investigations play in ensuring the integrity of dam projects in landslides ...

City officials plan to act at a Nov. 24 council meeting to create a new fund to specifically cover costs for mandated ...

Funding and design progress on the century-old Wallowa Lake Dam are underway in 2022, but the start date on construction has been pushed back a year to the fall of 2024. WALLOWA LAKE — Funding delays ...

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Upgrades to the North Fork Dam have come up against yet another delay in Harrisburg. After waiting for five years for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to ...

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 ...

On the Blue Nile in Ethiopia rises one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in Africa’s history—the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Designed to generate massive amounts of hydroelectric ...

If it weren’t for the construction of Libby Dam, in Libby, Montana, I’m not sure I’d be here today. I know for certain I wouldn’t be its natural resource manager. But more than that, I might not even ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...

Sep. 16—The city of Santa Fe is suing contractors that conducted work on dams at the Nichols and McClure reservoirs, alleging faulty work is now costing the city millions of dollars in repairs. A ...