Embankment dam breach analysis encompasses the investigation and modelling of failure mechanisms in earthen structures that retain water. Research in this field addresses both the physical and ...

Originally built in 1958, the Priest Rapids Dam is a composite structure with a center-channel spillway and powerhouse and a left and right embankment. Through proactive hazard identification modeling ...

A new study reveals that the devastating 2023 flood in Derna, Libya, was not merely the result of extreme rainfall but was drastically intensified by a major design shortcoming and its resulting ...

More than five years after the catastrophic failure of the Edenville Dam, crews are deep into the most complex and costly phase of its restoration. The dam, which once held back Wixom Lake, breached ...

Below the massive embankment of the North Fork Dam, activity of earthmoving equipment signals that work has begun on a $23 ...

For our nations’ first engineering force, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, dams and the massive reservoirs of fresh water they preserve, have become an essential element of its overall mission. Allen ...

Thalle Construction Co. Inc., Hillsborough, North Carolina, was awarded a $2,872,795,350 firm-fixed-price contract for the construction of a 17.75-mile-long embankment dam. Bids were solicited via the ...

SANFORD, Mich. (WNEM) – Dam disaster recovery is reaching the final stages in Sanford. More than five years after the catastrophic flood, crews are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Brad ...