In the early hours of December 14, 2005, high atop Proffit Mountain in the Missouri Ozarks, a triangular section on the northwest side of the Taum Sauk Dam Upper Reservoir failed, discharging 1 ...

Concrete dam engineering involves a multidisciplinary approach to ensure structural integrity, durability and safety. Recent advancements have focused on understanding the complex interplay between ...

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 ...

The Upstream Approach Walls for the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project got a solid start when work crews recently placed 148 cubic yards of tremie concrete into the drilled shaft on the bottom of ...

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho — A multi-year concrete project at American Falls Dam in eastern Idaho is slated to be finished by the end of September. The $12.1 million project improves the durability of ...

Rock arch rapids would replace two 1937-era concrete dams, one of which would serve as the outlet for Lake Calhoun and the other on the diversion channel or Kandiyohi County Ditch 20. Vo Naw, left, ...

Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in miniature. Cars, horses, little LEGO houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreation of the ...

My Own Dam, publicly referred to as Senteeko Dam, is registered with the department’s dam safety office as a 26m-high medium ...

These are used to extend durability by keeping out water, oils and chemicals as well as minimizing damage caused by UV ...

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