Hoover Dam's concrete needed decades to cool, so engineers buried 582 miles of steel pipe inside the massive structure.

The Lake of the Ozarks stretches for more than 54,000 acres in southern Missouri. The Bagnell Dam, which created the lake and several new waterways in 1931, holds back 600 billion gallons of water ...

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 ...

Nine dam removals freed 100+ miles of Illinois rivers, fish species jumped 6% in one year, and a sturgeon appeared where none ...

With America’s dams showing their age, utilities have an opportunity to tap into federal funding and modernize critical concrete infrastructure before costly failures strike. In the U.S., hydropower ...

A prominent water engineer says a decision to abandon and rebuild the controversial Paradise Dam near Bundaberg would take years but is ultimately the "right choice". The $1.2b project cannot safely ...

Ask any group of Americans what they know about the Hoover Dam and someone ...

...leveled for laydown and to fit offices, warehouses, mechanic shops, general storage, two RCC plants, a conventional concrete batch plant, parking for 600 cars and a 750,000-gallon reservoir for ...

When construction was completed in 1936, the Hoover Dam was not only the world's largest concrete structure and the world's largest hydroelectric power-generating station; it was also the largest dam ...

Torrential rain in the Midlands and North of England that saw half a month’s rain fall in one day caused such volumes of water to pass through the spillway of the Toddbrook Reservoir dam, above the ...