Over the past 200 years, humans have stored hundreds of billions of liters of water in thousands of dams around the world. In ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, announces updates to traffic patterns for Garrison Dam Crest Road and ...

New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.

The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows the shift happened in two phases: 1835–1954: Dams in North ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Consultants for the Lower Shaker Lake dam reconstruction project cite a “severe spillway capacity deficiency” that provides only about one-sixth of the rainwater flow ...

The Oroville Dam spillway is surrounded by charred land Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 from the Thompson Fire in Oroville, ... scorched earth from the Thompson Fire in July is clearly visible.

Even passive earthen berms need maintenance, from making sure that groundhogs don’t dig burrows in the dam itself to keeping trees out of spillways, and after 60 years they may need upgrading.