With America’s dams showing their age, utilities have an opportunity to tap into federal funding and modernize critical concrete infrastructure before costly failures strike. In the U.S., hydropower ...

Concrete-faced rockfill dams (CFRDs) represent a critical infrastructure element in modern water resource management and flood control. This dam type combines a robust rockfill body with an upstream ...

Concrete dam and spillway structure located at the Watts Bar Lock and Dam Project in Tennessee, jointly operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and the Tennessee Valley Authority. (Dr.

Civil engineer Roman P. Wengler was a “disruptor” in the world of dam building long before that was a word for an innovator. Wengler, who died in Houston on Aug. 8 at 95, was a global leader in the ...

When Michael Braden took over as U.S Army Corps of Engineers’ divisions chief for the Olmsted Locks and Dam in 2013, job No. 1 was getting the $3.1-billion project back on schedule. Pushed back by ...

Removing the Copco 2 Dam takes deconstruction crews one step closer to drawdowns of the remaining three reservoirs next January. The Klamath River flows by the remaining pieces of the Copco 2 Dam ...

In May 1948, floodwaters on the Columbia River overtopped the cofferdam where construction was underway on McNary Lock and Dam. This flood, one of the largest on record, was one of many documented in ...

On this day in history, July 7, 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam began. Over the course of the next five years, more than 21,000 men would work tirelessly to produce what would become the largest ...