When the Platte and Missouri river systems could not drain the rain and ice from the "bomb cyclone" weather event in northeast Nebraska in March 2019, the Spencer Dam on the Niobrara River was swept ...

For seven years, a Czech dam existed only on paper. It had funding, a blueprint and a clear purpose, yet not one shovel had ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S., has made national ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

When a sinkhole was discovered near the base of the Boone Dam embankment, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s dam safety engineers went to work determining the best fix. The complexity of the work and ...

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Inside a cavernous northern Utah warehouse, hydraulic engineers send water rushing down a replica of a section of a dam built out of wood, concrete and steel — trying to pinpoint ...

A sinkhole discovered at a Kalamazoo park about a year ago is now prompting planned improvements to a nearby dam, though city officials emphasize the structure remains safe and is not at risk of ...

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 ...