They can be both picturesque and deadly, not to mention harmful to aquatic habitat and water quality, and they're mostly obsolete. Dams are being targeted for removal across the United States. With 16 ...

PITTSFIELD — One way or another, the Bel Air Dam’s days are numbered. Its practical use as a power generator long passed, it is now an active public safety and environmental hazard silently ...

THE stresses in masonry dams, to which much attention has recently been devoted in our correspondence columns, formed the subject of three papers read before the Institution of Civil Engineers on ...

(1)THE engineering term “dam” has a diversity of applications; it may be defined to include any work which has for its object the confinement of water, (a) so as to produce a rise in level, (b) so as ...

This 1967 cover photo depicts construction of the Nagarjunasagar Dam in India. The three-mile long gravity dam, with a central masonry section almost one mile long, flanked by earth and rockfill ...

These dams serve a critical purpose: they store water that would otherwise evaporate or flow away, enabling farmers to irrigate their crops even during dry months. For instance, Bekit Idris, a farmer ...