California is ordering immediate spillway inspections at about 70 aging dams that it believes might not be sound enough to protect downstream communities in a flood. Supervising engineer Daniel ...

OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The costs to repair the nation's tallest dam after a nearly catastrophic failure of the spillways will top $500 million, nearly double the original estimate of $275 million, a ...

The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, "threatening their structural integrity and downstream communities," according to a new study from Florida. About 250,000 ...

Vallecito Dam is due for some serious upkeep. Built in the late 1930s, the infrastructure that maintains Vallecito Reservoir is decades beyond its original design life. So far, things ...

Hundreds of thousands of people remained under evacuation orders Monday in the low levels of Oroville, California, and several areas downstream from Lake Oroville as authorities try to fix erosion of ...

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 ...

The department’s spokesperson, Wisane Mavasa, said an emergency safety assessment by its dam safety office confirmed that the ...

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

The intervention comes after the department was alerted to structural concerns at the privately owned dam, officially ...

The Department of Water and Sanitation has warned that the Senteeko Dam near Barberton may fail without warning, urging ...