The Banqiao Dam was supposed to be a masterpiece of human engineering. An earthen embankment dam straddling China’s Ru River, it was an attempt to harness water to irrigate farmland in the Huai River ...

Originally built in 1958, the Priest Rapids Dam is a composite structure with a center-channel spillway and powerhouse and a left and right embankment. Through proactive hazard identification modeling ...

CONTRACTOR: Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. DESIGN FIRM: GEI Consultants Inc. The $11-million project to raise Hell Hole Dam in Foresthill, Calif., was never going to be easy. Built in 1966, the ...

When a sinkhole was discovered near the base of the Boone Dam embankment, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s dam safety engineers went to work determining the best fix. The complexity of the work and ...

After two dams in northeastern Libya failed, thousands of people are dead, thousands more are unaccounted for, and tens of thousands are displaced in the city of Derna and surrounding towns. The dams ...

CENTREVILLE, MI — Federal regulators are letting the city of Sturgis delay a safety drawdown at its hydro dam reservoir until September after a new inspection found embankment conditions had not ...

An eroding embankment and levee at Waco's low-water dam could cause major problems if runoff from heavy rain were to wash it away. "We would lose all the water from Lake Brazos and so we would lose ...

Thousands of Russians have been evacuated from their homes after an embankment dam broke in the southern region of Orenburg, near Kazakhstan, authorities said. The dam in the city of Orsk could not ...