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 ...

Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

This fascinating video explores the design and construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most ambitious engineering projects ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Back when it first happened, we covered the Oroville Dam near-disaster. Heavier-than-expected rainfall in California back in early 2017 led to running the dam’s primary spillway at much ...

Three Washington dams on the upper reaches of the Skagit River in the northwest corner of the nation have come under intense scrutiny during a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) relicensing ...

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 ...

Both of those dams fell in rainfall that had about a 1 in 25 chance of occurring in any given year, engineers said. Jeongwoo Hwang, a postdoctoral research scholar at North Carolina State University’s ...