The current state of the nation is in need of additional natural resources to extend the means of renewable energy. This became the eye-opener of the people how the supplementary factors like dams and ...

My dad helped with the building of Silver Lake. My dad and my in-laws told stories of the spring flooding happening every year before the original dam and Silver Lake was built. The Silver Lake dam ...

Local officials are working with the feds to study building the dams, which might be able to lower the risks of another deadly flood on the river.

MINNEAPOLIS — In Minnesota, beavers have long been considered a nuisance, thanks to their uncanny ability to gnaw trees and construct dams that sometimes clog culverts, raise lake levels or flood ...

COLUMBIA ― With more than 2,300 state-regulated dams across the state, the South Carolina Department of Health of and Environmental Control’s (DHEC) Dams & Reservoirs Safety Program plays a critical ...

Toston Dam, also called Broadwater Dam, has the distinction of being the only state-owned hydroelectric dam. The 6 to 10 megawatts of power produced is small compared to other dams — Canyon Ferry Dam ...

HELENA — When a leak sprang in one of Toston Dam’s 23-year-old rubber bladders in 2012, it took fewer than three hours for the entire 327-acre reservoir to drain and for farmers to lose irrigation ...