Improvements to the spillway, the stilling basin immediately below it, and other parts of the 42-year-old dam aim to extend the life of the structure and modernize it.

The utility posted a video of the dam the morning of Sept. 28, when water was receding by one feet each hour. The record flow of water over Nolichucky occurred late the night before. Despite the ...

In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers dumped 27,000 tons of rock to dam the Niagara River and stop the American Falls. They were assessing a growing pile of boulders at the bottom out of concern ...

Flooding from Hurricane Helene caused the Nolichucky Dam near Greeneville, Tennessee, to withstand nearly twice the water flow of the iconic Niagara Falls, the Tennessee Department of ...

Vaal Dam and Augrabies Falls water levels and flow patterns. The Vaal Dam over the weekend decreased by 2.72 percentage points. According to Monday’s Reservoir report, ...

Until engineers constructed the temporary dam in 1969, no one had seen the bare rock face of American Falls since March 30, 1848, when an ice jam from Lake Erie stopped the Niagara River. AP Photo ...

American Falls is recognizable for the immense rock pile, or talus, at its base, the result of a series of natural rockslides over the years. In the late 1960s, concerns were growing that further ...

The next big phase of the Klamath River Dam removal started this week. It's the largest dam removal in U.S. history and is expected to last through 2024.

The largest-ever dam removal is underway, a milestone in the nation’s reckoning over its past attempts to bend nature to human will.

A nearly century-old dam. The Marshfield Dam, technically located in Cabot, holds back the roughly 400-acre Marshfield Reservoir, also known as Molly’s Falls Pond, a state park.

Flooding from Hurricane Helene caused the Nolichucky Dam near Greeneville, Tennessee, to withstand nearly twice the water flow of the iconic Niagara Falls, the Tennessee Department of ...