The intervention comes after the department was alerted to structural concerns at the privately owned dam, officially registered as My Own Dam.

Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has dispatched a team of dam safety engineers to assess and closely monitor ...

But in March, the Association of State Dam Safety Officials estimated the cost to repair every dam not owned by the federal government at $75 billion. Engineering experts who assess failed dams say ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District recently completed a comprehensive inspection of the outlet conduit at B ...

Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the U.S., has made national headlines recently. The reservoir which lies across Nevada and Arizona is formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. And its water ...

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 ...

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, ...

Syphon Reservoir, located in Irvine, Calif., will undergo a significant capital improvement upgrade with engineers COWI and GFT securing a $25M contract for construction management. The Irvine Ranch ...

On a cold, gray day in late March, the mountains on the drive to the Yusufeli hydroelectric dam project site in northeastern Turkey seem ominous. With the highest of these rising more than 3,000 ...

Work to repair and stabilize a century-old dam that supports drinking water for Birmingham suburbs was stopped by the CEO of Birmingham’s regional water utility leaving the future of the project ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hard at work at Lock and Dam No. 7 in La Crescent. The structure was recently dewatered ...