On the night of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam suffered a catastrophic failure that unleashed billions of gallons of ...
On June 5, 1976, the Teton Dam disaster in Idaho released 80 billion gallons of water onto populated valley cities below, ...
"The dam collapsed at 11:15 a.m., and 80 billion gallons of water rushed to the valley floor. By 8 p.m., the reservoir was ...
Fifty years after the Teton Dam failure devastated Idaho communities, project engineer Vincent Poxleitner recalls the ...
The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, "threatening their structural integrity and downstream communities," according to a new study from Florida. About 250,000 ...
On the night of October 9, 1963, a massive landslide plunged into the reservoir behind Italy’s 264-meter-tall Vajont Dam, ...
The number of dams in the United States at risk of overtopping is increasing, threatening their structural integrity and downstream communities, according to new research from the FAMU-FSU College of ...
During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...
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Five years after the Edenville and Sanford dam failures flooded Midland and Gladwin counties, the region’s lakes are being rebuilt — and so is Michigan’s approach to dam safety. The 2020 disaster ...