The intervention comes after the department was alerted to structural concerns at the privately owned dam, officially ...

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 Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has dispatched a team of dam safety engineers to assess and closely monitor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

How does extreme weather affect the stability of dams? Dams are usually built to withstand heavy rainfall or drought. The design and construction of a dam takes into consideration all possible effects ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Nearly a century after its construction began, the Dreher Shoals Dam — better known as the Lake Murray Dam — has been officially recognized as a National Historic Civil Engineering ...

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 ...

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 ...

VAN NUYS, California – Engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles and Philadelphia districts performed a periodic hydraulic steel structure inspection of Sepulveda Dam March 22-23 in ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hard at work at Lock and Dam No. 7 in La Crescent. The structure was recently dewatered so it can undergo some repair ...