For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

A pair of Southern California dam upgrades are to mitigate flood risk for nearly 2.5 million peoplein and $400 billion in ...

Water Power Magazine has reported that a new guide has been published addressing the impact of earthquakes on concrete dams. According to the article, Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams shows ...

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 ...

Updated watershed data suggests more water could come into Lake Mitchell for a once-in-a-millennium rain storm, but officials ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Beavers are increasingly being recognized as vital ecosystem engineers who can help us navigate the challenges of climate ...