Shelved plans from '60s for TVA project in NC unlikely to make comeback. Dam failures, costs and ecology will make new dams ...

Property owners face dual challenges of home reconstruction and special assessments as they continue to recover five years ...

Energy generation by the dam has been reduced by 40 percent since pre-drought levels. When there is a reduction in the supply of hydropower generated from the dam, small rural public power utilities ...

Hoover Dam, on the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers tours and scenic views. Visitors can choose between two guided tours: the Power Plant Tour and the Dam Tour. Tours often sell out ...

It’s a world of its own, a place where people go to dream or start over, to soak in the sun and cower in the face of inevitable natural disaster ... Deal and the Hoover Dam, he is neither ...

What happens if the Hoover Dam fails? This engineering marvel has been standing for nearly a century, supplying water and electricity to millions. But if disaster strikes, the consequences could ...

which was the first dam ever subject to new state inspection legislation that followed the St. Francis disaster, with close scrutiny by a panel of experts. “The Morris Dam was the first major ...

That visit to Gulfport, Mississippi wasn’t even Nixon’s first priority that day: dedicating a dam in Texas was ... Let’s review. Herbert Hoover. He was the first president to make disaster relief a ...

Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell have long been a central pivot point on the Colorado, controlling river flows that otherwise would pass unimpeded to Hoover ... such as a near-disaster in June ...

Plans were developed in the era of the building of the Hoover Dam and a sense that “if we poured enough concrete, we could control nature,” Sweeten said. Also, the nation was in the depths of ...