BARRY COUNTY, MI - State park managers plan to shrink a popular boating and fishing lake between Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo amid concerns that an aging dam could fail and wash out a road. While local ...

An Independent Review Board has delivered the fullest account to date of the June 24, 2024 collapse that sent 1.77 million ...

The state of Nevada bought the Marlette Lake water system in 1963 for $1.65 million. The system still supplies water to ...

The study of water-sediment processes and dam-land-erosion mechanisms under check dam break conditions is of great significance for the construction and later management of check dams. This paper, ...

However, a weak-point over the downstream slope was not observed to reach the worst-case scenario of failure of the dam. In fact, after the flow overtopped the crest and the failure breach developed, ...

These 10 jaw-dropping dam failures were all captured on camera — and each one shows just how devastating water can be when massive infrastructure collapses. From sudden bursts to gradual ...

One year later, a Blue Earth County community is still feeling the impacts following the collapse of the Rapidan Dam.

The stability of dam intake slopes is critical to ensuring the safe and reliable operation of hydropower projects. Although backpropagation (BP) neural networks have been widely applied in slope ...

These results provided a robust framework that proved two major hypotheses: (1) the recharge rate in the backscarp is much higher than in the rest of the unstable slope, due to infiltration of surface ...