Federal workers have taken the first steps in a $32 million maintenance of the Blue Mesa Dam, the largest of three dams that ...

After decades of planning and years of construction, Northern Colorado's Chimney Hollow Dam is nearly complete. Construction crews topped off the 350-foot-tall dam recently and are preparing to pave a ...

Plans to build a dam on Alum Creek for flood control and to create a water supply reservoir date back to the spring of 1956, soon after the Hoover Dam was completed in Westerville. Planners knew it ...

In the wake of the deadly July 4 Guadalupe River flooding that killed 119 people in Kerr County, much attention has been focused on the lack of warning systems, which left sleeping campers, residents ...

Beaver Lake has a major birthday next year, the big 6-0. The sparkling reservoir that gives us water to drink and all kinds of outdoor recreation was completed in 1966, but the effort to build Beaver ...

The city of High Point is seeking $20 million in federal funds to assist with the construction costs of a major infrastructure project. The request through the 2026 Water Resources ...

It began with a simple idea: hold back rivers to store water. But over nearly two centuries, this effort — multiplied across nearly 7,000 dams worldwide — has done something no one expected. It has ...

It’s obvious, simply from reading the Seneca Nation of Indians’ comments in a recent news release signaling productive talks between the nation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the Kinzua Dam ...

On February 26, 1972, a Buffalo Mining Company impoundment dam collapsed, killing 125 people and leaving thousands homeless.

Historic dams can sometimes have beneficial impacts on surrounding wildlife, plants, and waterways, as with the dam that created Ames Pond in Shutesbury that sustains a rare natural bog ecosystem. / ...