For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

BOZRAH, CT (WFSB) - While crews continue to investigate the cause of the leak at the Fitchville Pond Dam, the I-Team is learning more about the past problems DEEP says they’ve found at the dam. But in ...

LENOIR CITY – A cutting-edge Side Scan Sonar system is making Tennessee Valley Authority dam inspection cheaper and more efficient. The device, descended on a cord from a small boat, can take 2D and ...

Time was, dam safety inspections meant climbing, crawling and diving. Today—thanks to some nifty new technology—it means simply boating and monitoring. Side-scan sonar—a new state-of-the-art ...

(TNS) - The situation has improved enough on the Blue Earth River to allow for more assessment of the damaged Rapidan Dam, riverbanks, the County 9 bridge just up from the dam, as well as downstream ...

LEXINGTON — Lake Murray boaters are being asked to steer clear of the Lake Murray Dam, where Dominion Energy has begun preliminary work on a project to improve the dam's intake towers. The intake ...

SACRAMENTO — The California Department of Water Resources would be required to beef up dam inspections under a bill sent to Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday, a year to the day after spillway failures at ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill passed in response to last February's Oroville spillway disaster that aims to strengthen the state's system of dam inspections. The bill's chief author, Assemblyman ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday that seeks to beef up dam inspections following a near disaster that caused the evacuation of almost 200,000 people living downstream from the ...

As a result of stresses caused by water load, water saturation and erosion, engineers are looking for reliable methods that will enable them to probe the structural integrity of dams. Dams are ...

GREENWICH — The state says the Pemberwick Dam has “high hazard potential” but it didn’t receive regular safety inspections for a decade because no one would claim ownership. Tracking down the owners ...

RAPIDAN — The situation has improved enough on the Blue Earth River to allow for more assessment of the damaged Rapidan Dam, riverbanks, the County 9 bridge just up from the dam, as well as downstream ...