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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

SCRANTON – Lackawanna County hired a firm to design and engineer the eventual reconstruction of the No. 5 Dam on Montage Mountain, an important safety project supported by federal funds. Built between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deborah Johnson of Tulsa Oklahoma is stretched over the stone wall to get the perfect shot of the water during Wachusett Dam Day, ...

The small headline of the Engineering News article shown here belies the gravity of the disaster: the deadliest dam failure in U.S. history. The South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania was a 72-ft-tall, 931-ft ...

A massive dam wall in the heart of Jerusalem has been fully excavated by a team of Israeli researchers and dated precisely to 2,800 years ago, the time of biblical kings Joash and Amaziah of Judah, ...

On a cold, gray day in late March, the mountains on the drive to the Yusufeli hydroelectric dam project site in northeastern Turkey seem ominous. With the highest of these rising more than 3,000 ...

AMES, Iowa -- Iowa State University engineering students hope that auctioning a rare work of folk art can help fund construction of an earthen dam for an African village. The artwork is a painted ...