Drawing on past experience and the above-referenced information, the district decides how to operate the reservoirs to maximize storage potential and prevent downstream flooding. Flood control ...

The district manages two major off-stream reservoirs that supply water from the Virgin River Basin for its cities, but those facilities can’t be used for flood control. Water from that river is ...

LOS ANGELES — As a series of atmospheric rivers pummeled California with heavy rain and residents braced for potential flooding, on Friday the state began releasing millions of gallons of water ...

The concept of the reservoir was first considered after the great flood of 1880. On Sunday, the Racibórz Dolny flood control reservoir on the Oder was activated. "The reservoir should flatten the ...

Plans call for building a dam and reservoir ... of the control project." The basin will only fill during heavy rains and will have the capacity to hold a once-in-500-years flood.

The high-flow releases, which will start mid-morning Wednesday from the reservoir’s Warm Springs Dam, are meant to create space for additional runoff and maintain capacity for flood control ...

The Lake Manatee dam was never built to hold back the massive amount of floodwater that inundated nearby homes during Tropical Storm Debby. Officials say additional flood control measures are ...