The Hoover Dam was an engineering feat- a Depression-era accomplishment that harnessed the Colorado River and gave rise to cities like Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. But the success of the ...

In New Hampshire and across our country, dams provide essential services, including flood control, drinking water, renewable energy, and irrigation. For the safety of our communities, to help combat ...

Changes planned for Linn County’s Pinicon Ridge Park dam aim to turn it into a place where people and aquatic wildlife can live and play safer. Last month, the county conservation board awarded a $3.4 ...

Five years after the World Commission on Dams gave key recommendations on how dams could be built with minimum social and evironmental costs, WWF reports that governments, financiers and dam builders ...

correctionA Metro article in some Feb. 22 editions incorrectly located the source of the Rappahannock River in the Shenandoah Mountains. The river originates in the Blue Ridge Mountains. (Published ...

Work continues to remove the Bel Air Dam in Pittsfield. NewsChannel 13’ s media partners at The Berkshire Eagle shared photos of construction teams and large equipment are there to clear the area. As ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Feb. 23 -- The American shad had already waited 40 generations (in shad years) for the Embrey Dam to come down and allow native fish to make their way back to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Last year, after the historic removal of four dams on the Klamath River, thousands of salmon rushed upstream into the long-blocked waters along the California-Oregon border, seeking out the cold, ...

CYNTHIANA, Ky. ― Beth Collins suggested they go to the dam that sunny day in 2011. After weeks of rain in northcentral Kentucky, the skies had cleared, so Collins and her boyfriend, Brandon Holbert, ...

The Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District reports that water will soon be released into the Santa Ynez River from Lake Cachuma’s Bradbury Dam. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will release water ...