In April 1956, Columbus Service Director Floyd C. Redick proposed building a dam in Alum Creek in Orange Township, Delaware ...

VIROQUA - Local officials in a flood-prone pocket of Wisconsin's Driftless region are weighing whether to take 23 flood control dams out of service. In August 2018, five of the dams failed during ...

A federal report recommended taking the dams out of service by cutting a large notch in each, saying all but one weren't worth the cost to replace.

Mitchell, alongside a team of minds keeping the river authority operating, explained that many of these dams were a direct ...

The monstrous, swift-moving flood that swept through the Hill Country of Texas killing at least 27 people and leaving many more missing, was a flash flood, the nation’s top storm-related killer ...

Five PL-566 dams in Vernon, La Crosse and Monroe counties failed during an intense 2018 storm. Now officials weigh whether 23 similar dams need to go.

Those dams, combined, control water levels on 343 square miles of land, and are estimated to reduce flood damage by $44.5 million a year, with the largest reduced risk, $25.3 million a year, for ...

Many people may not know it, but about 20% of the nation’s dams are in Oklahoma. There are more than 4,700 in all, including more than 2,000 identified as flood-control dams. “Nationwide, I ...

VIROQUA - Local officials in a flood-prone pocket of Wisconsin's Driftless region are weighing whether to take 23 flood control dams out of service. In August 2018, five of the dams failed during ...

VIROQUA - Local officials in a flood-prone pocket of Wisconsin's Driftless region are weighing whether to take 23 flood control dams out of service. In August 2018, five of the dams failed during a ...