Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trinity River Authority declared a “potential failure watch” for the Lake Livingston Dam ...

The Corps had to alter the spill over the dam during the emergency response.

As massive floodwaters pushed the dam toward disaster, engineers made the terrifying decision to let the spillway collapse on purpose to prevent a catastrophic failure that could have devastated ...

BISMARCK — The emergency spillway at Garrison Dam in central North Dakota was subjected to an unprecedented test when flows more than twice the previous record reached the dam during the Missouri ...

Remember when the concrete spillway of the nation’s tallest dam developed a giant hole, and downstream communities were evacuated out of fear that a wall of water would charge down the river? It turns ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – “This is NOT a drill.” The Butte County Sheriff’s Office repeated the warning three times, telling residents near California’s Oroville Dam to evacuate before potential disaster ...