The current state of the nation is in need of additional natural resources to extend the means of renewable energy. This became the eye-opener of the people how the supplementary factors like dams and ...

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 ...

JOHNSON CITY, TN (WJHL) – Tennessee Valley Authority is in the process of finalizing safety assessments at 49 dam projects, a process that’s supposed to wrap up at the end of the year. That’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

HELENA — When a leak sprang in one of Toston Dam’s 23-year-old rubber bladders in 2012, it took fewer than three hours for the entire 327-acre reservoir to drain and for farmers to lose irrigation ...

At the risk of bastardizing a cliche, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than to solve the conundrum of Lower Snake River dams. But a plan from Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson ...

The construction of dams across the U.S. has resulted in the flooding of a Rhode Island-sized swath of tribal lands, a new study has found. Dams have inundated more than 1.13 million acres of these ...