The Colorado River Water Conservation District’s board of directors has approved a contract with an engineering firm to address problems with a dam that are turning out to be worse than previously ...

The top of Wrangell’s upper reservoir dam in March 2022. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) The dams holding back drinking water in the Southeast Alaska community of Wrangell are over a century old. They’re leaky, ...

DES MOINES — Several problems, including design flaws, likely led to the breach of an eastern Iowa dam last summer that decimated a 9-mile long lake, a panel of independent engineers said last week.

U.S. dam safety frameworks have helped to prevent major calamities, but the May collapse of the 95-year-old Edenville Dam in Michigan illustrates that key failure risks remain—often involving many ...

America's dams are currently averaging 64 years old, and most of us don't give them a second thought until something goes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATLANTA (AP) — Plumbing problems at the dam ...