The US Bureau of Reclamation has launched an international dam safety challenge aimed at subsurface cracks in embankment dams ...

HeroX, the leading platform and open marketplace for crowdsourced solutions, today announced the launch of "Crack the Case" ...

File Photo/DAILY. Buy this photo. The city of Ann Arbor officially launched the Barton Dam embankment remediation project in early March. The project, expected to be completed in June of 2027, ...

Embankment dam breach analysis encompasses the investigation and modelling of failure mechanisms in earthen structures that retain water. Research in this field addresses both the physical and ...

FARGO — The earthen embankment of Garrison Dam that controls the flow of the mighty Missouri River has fused with the prairie landscape through its elongated bulk stretching across a wide valley. More ...

Construction has restarted on the northern embankment of Sanford Dam. The work begins after last week's announcement from the Michigan Supreme Court of its denial to hear Heron Cove Association appeal ...

An interim report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials reports that a clear factor in the failures of two dams built in the 1920s was static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, ...

Pennsylvania American Water drained a North Pocono reservoir to upgrade its dam, but the project’s impact on wildlife has one resident concerned. The water company began lowering the water level at ...

The most plausible cause of the Edenville Dam failure, which spurred catastrophic flooding in the Midland area in May 2020, is saturated, loose sand in an embankment that rapidly lost strength, ...

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 ...