TAHOE DAM BY THE NUMBERS 63 - The number of tributaries — streams, creeks and rivers — that run into Lake Tahoe. 1 - The Truckee River is the only outlet flowing from Lake Tahoe. 6.1 - The number of ...
DUPLAIN TWP. — The Elsie dam that failed in August was a "ticking time bomb" and a "foreseeable failure" that could cost the small township more than a million dollars to replace or remove, a state ...
Communities immediately downstream of California's Lake Oroville dam would not receive adequate warning or time for evacuations if the 770-foot-tall dam itself — rather than its spillways — were to ...
Reporting from Lake Shasta, Calif. — While California’s other major dam has been the focus of national attention, the Shasta Dam was making history itself this week. For the first time in almost two ...
New time-lapse video released from the state Department of Water Resources shows the new main spillway at Oroville Dam in Northern California rising from the rubble of the former spillway after one of ...
(TNS) - The situation has improved enough on the Blue Earth River to allow for more assessment of the damaged Rapidan Dam, riverbanks, the County 9 bridge just up from the dam, as well as downstream ...
For the first time in 19 years the gates at Shasta Dam were opened Wednesday, sending water cascading down the face of the 602-foot-tall structure. The gates were opened one at a time as a test to ...
Because construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam across the Colorado River at Black Canyon is the largest single engineering feat ever attempted in the U. S., individual contracting companies were ...
Khawla Shaban lived under the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) for almost seven months, after the militants took over her village of Wana in northern Iraq. “We didn’t leave the house the whole ...