Articles Tagged with ''dams''

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded an $85-million contract to a Black & Veatch-Stantec joint venture to advance the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, a key effort to keep the invasive fish species out of the Great Lakes. Work will support design of a layered system of engineered barriers and deterrent technologies at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam.

As Lake Powell and Lake Mead near critical elevations, federal planners face narrowing operational options that could reshape hydropower generation, releases and Colorado River Basin water management.

A draft environmental impact statement by the Bureau of Reclamation outlines post-2026 Colorado River dam operations, assessing coordination, reliability and infrastructure risk in an era of persistent drought. 

In the early morning of July 4, the Texas Hill Country received record rainfall—about eight inches in four hours in Hunt, Texas.<

A commentary on how engineering solutions may save lives.

The Colorado River was a fault line of near-tectonic political forces by the 1920s, as the seven states within its basin continued to grow in population.

This 1941 cover image shows workers on top of the drum gates of the mile-long Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State.

Port infrastructure receives the highest grade, stormwater and transit the lowest as report authors say continued federal, state and local funding is necessary to continue improving the country's infrastructure. 

The latest in what's happening across the California and Northwest regions.

A final independent report from a forensic team backed by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials found that rapid, static liquefaction of earthen embankments caused the May 2020 collapse of the Edenville and downstream Sanford Dams in Michigan.