The California Department of Water Resources began releasing 13,500 cubic feet per second from the spillway Thursday.

February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living ...

Activated in 2017, and again in 2019, its long dormancy captures well the effects of the droughts California has suffered ...

Losing the reservoir would fall hard on Waterbury canoeing enthusiasts such as Sheila Goss, vice president of the reservoir group’s board. Goss said she canoed 273 out of 365 days last year with her ...

nearly every dam needs a spillway to safely discharge water. The spillway is a critical part of any dam and often the most complex component. So how does it work? DC plane crash live updates ...

Because the dam was constructed in a canyon too narrow to support a typical spillway, officials erected the unique engineering feature to still allow for drainage. A major atmospheric river storm ...

Despite local protests, India is building a giant hydro dam on the Siang River to counter a Chinese dam – the world’s largest – upstream in Tibet. Millions of people in India and Bangladesh ...

The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, which could affect nearby countries. By Tiffany May Isabelle Qian and ...

At least two Monday morning crashes led to heavy congestion on the Bonnet Carre Spillway, one I-10 Eastbound near I-55 Southbound just as many drivers hit the road.A left lane and left shoulder ...

The proposed dam in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, known as Brahmaputra in India, is expected to generate 300 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity annually, about three times the ...

There are plans to build a magnificent, multi-billion dollar mega-dam on the Congo River - one that would produce enough renewable electricity to power vast areas of Africa. The structure would be ...

Despite the winter weather, Wednesday morning, USACE Little Rock District engineers opened two spillway gates at Beaver Dam ...