Gate and earth-rock dam systems are the preferred dam types for river sections under deep overburden conditions, low head, and high flow rates. This study established a three-dimensional finite ...

In general, the safety of dams is not only related to design and construction, but also depends on the behavior and performance of instrumentation in the phases of construction, impounding, and ...

The visuals were stunning: Water from the Blue Earth River surged around a southern Minnesota dam, carrying a shipping container with it as it toppled utility poles, wrecked a substation and washed ...

From highways to power grids, Americans are used to hearing that their infrastructure is aging. What is harder to see is what is happening inside the concrete and earth that hold back the country’s ...

The satellite signal was subtle but persistent. A decade of observations suggested that part of the Livingston Dam — a 2.5-mile-long earth and concrete structure about 70 miles north of Houston — was ...

Over the past two centuries, humans have locked up enough water in dams to shift Earth's poles slightly away from the planet's axis of rotation, according to recent research. Earth's outermost solid ...

Many American dams are aging and in need of serious repairs. Climate change only makes the problem more urgent. Credit...By The Associated Press Supported by By Mitch Smith The warning from the county ...