exceeding the then-record 417-ft Owyhee Dam in Oregon, the Hoover Dam was an unprecedented project, with the Bureau of Reclamation conducting research on physics, mechanics, elasticity ...

A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers ...

After years of silence, the massive dam spillway finally opens, and what follows is nothing short of jaw-dropping. In this rare and dramatic moment, powerful torrents of water erupt from the dam ...

HYRUM, Utah (KUTV) — The roadway over Hyrum Dam in Cache County has been scheduled to close for up to three to four years while during construction of a new spillway. Officials from the US ...

File photo of Lake Mead as seen from Hoover Dam at the Nevada and Arizona border. File photo of Lake Mead as seen from Hoover Dam at the Nevada and Arizona border. bloodua/Getty Images The ...

Gardy’s Millpond Dam was breached in 1985 during Hurricane Bob. Following that breach, a new emergency spillway was added. In 2005, repairs were made at the dam after a “piping condition ...

Releases from Garrison Dam are being reduced to assist in the recovery of a tugboat that sank in the Missouri River last week while working on the new BNSF Railway bridge in the Bismarck-Mandan ...

Other parts of the presentation will include water forecasts as well as reviews of the 2017 Oroville Dam Spillway incident when the spillway came close to rupturing, coming close to a disaster ...

the state made the decision to raise the water level of Sanford Lake by nearly eight feet despite knowing of the dam’s inadequate spillway systems and structural concerns. Now, the attorneys ...

Archaeologists and naturalists hastened to detail the canyon’s contents even as the Glen Canyon Dam was under construction. By the time the waters of Lake Powell began to rise in 1963 ...

OROVILLE — With an uncertain future and a concerned public, new changes to the state’s water control manual made their way before the Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday with the hope ...

Las Vegas always had the makings of a great video game setting. Our city’s historical connections to organized crime, the Rat Pack and nearby nuclear testing positioned it as the perfect ...