Officials from various water-related entities highlighted some of the problems associated with the historic drought that is plaguing much of the western U.S.—as well as some solutions to address it—at Engineering News-Record’s second annual Western Water Conference.
The CEO of Zurich Insurance Group AG departed not long after the company announced an additional $306 million in reserves to cover auto and construction liabilities in the U.S.
In late February 2014, a 2-in.-wide crack was discovered at a horizontal lift joint spanning a 65-ft-wide monolith at the Wanapum Dam Spillway that had resulted in about 1 and 1∕2 in. of differential movement across the lift joint.
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