Initiated in 1913, the Troy Lock and Dam project aimed at enhancing navigation along the Hudson River. Laborers, many of whom ...

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The Klamath River Renewal Corporation removed four dams in California and Oregon. The results were even better than scientists anticipated.

Eighty-six years after America's worst civil engineering disaster, the lessons appear painfully obvious. Engineers now know that each big project has its own set of unique challenges; there's no ...

Standing in the brutal heat of the black canyon, Hoover Dam on the great Colorado river, was not just a construction project, it was a landmark example that redefined engineering. One of the most ...

Fatih Çevik, general manager of Limak Construction, based in Ankara, Turkey, has had a longstanding affection for the Çoruh River in the country’s mountainous northeastern region, which he describes ...

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Old Mission Dam tells the story of San Diego’s early mission era, showcasing a 200-year-old engineering project.

Study by civil engineers finds that the history of the Jagersfontein dam deviates from best engineering practice. On 11 September 2022, a diamond mine waste storage facility, known as a tailings dam, ...

Yida Zhang is deeply passionate about assessing the stability of dams, but his approach is unconventional. Rather than studying the large aging structures, his research zeroes in on the tiny sand ...

After basin-state negotiations collapsed, federal officials proposed two-year operating rules that prioritize reservoir ...

Growing up, we got to play with all kinds of things in miniature. Cars, horses, little LEGO houses, the lot. What we didn’t get is a serious education with miniature-sized dams. This recreation of the ...