Most of our state’s aging dams – built in the 1800s and early 1900s to power mills that no longer exist – continue to block ...

My dad helped with the building of Silver Lake. My dad and my in-laws told stories of the spring flooding happening every year before the original dam and Silver Lake was built. The Silver Lake dam ...

These mountains feed rivers that supply drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people along the Front Range. After the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their uncanny ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood ...

COLUMBIA ― With more than 2,300 state-regulated dams across the state, the South Carolina Department of Health of and Environmental Control’s (DHEC) Dams & Reservoirs Safety Program plays a critical ...

After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature. A ...

Thousands of critical water barriers across America are slowly disappearing into the earth beneath them—a silent structural ...