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 ...

Originally built in 1958, the Priest Rapids Dam is a composite structure with a center-channel spillway and powerhouse and a left and right embankment. Through proactive hazard identification modeling ...

Long before he became an associate professor of Civil Engineering and an expert on the effects of earthquakes on dams, Richard “Richie” Armstrong was a young man in Canada, dreaming about California.

HASTINGS, Minn. — Every year, billions of dollars of cargo travel down the Mississippi River through the Twin Cities. A lot of that cargo travels through the Army Corps of Engineers’ Lock and Dam #2 ...

LANSING, MI — A sudden loss of soil strength under saturated conditions likely caused the catastrophic failure of the Edenville Dam near Midland last spring, according to an investigation report ...

The most plausible cause of the Edenville Dam failure, which spurred catastrophic flooding in the Midland area in May 2020, is saturated, loose sand in an embankment that rapidly lost strength, ...

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 ...

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office is planning to pursue a judgment against Lee Mueller, the managing partner of the former owner of the Edenville Dam, over the dam's 2020 failure that caused ...

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy has lowered water levels at the Holly Mill Pond Dam after the Village of Holly failed to take action themselves. The draw down began on ...