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 ...

ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is seeking public input on proposed safety repairs to the John Sevier Dam on the Holston River near Rogersville. The TVA wants to ...

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 ...

HYRUM, Cache County — An aging spillway that brought some concerns for failure during a record water year in 2023 is now being replaced. The project will take about four years, but managers with the ...

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 ...

Funding and design progress on the century-old Wallowa Lake Dam are underway in 2022, but the start date on construction has been pushed back a year to the fall of 2024. WALLOWA LAKE — Funding delays ...

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 ...