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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

Click here if you are unable to view this gallery on a mobile device. OROVILLE — The American Society of Civil Engineers has recognized the Oroville Dam rebuild as one of 10 outstanding civil ...

Maryland's Conowingo dam has been the focus of lawsuits between conservation groups and energy companies. (Photo by Eliot Malmuth, Chesapeake Bay Foundation). The groups participating in Stanford's ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that it has begun taking applications for $7.5 billion in credit assistance from a new program that aims to help nonfederal government agencies, ...

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 ...

On Oct. 22, students from CU Boulder's engineering geology class (CVEN 3698) embarked on a field trip to explore the Chimney Hollow Dam project, an active construction site located to the west of ...

Killingly's Old Killingly Pond Dam is at risk of collapse due to seepage and sediment, prompting emergency actions.

Kallanai Dam in Tamil Nadu, built around 150 CE, is one of the world's oldest functioning water diversion structures.