Here are the top 10 storage events at Miami Conservancy District dams since the region's flood protection system was put into operation.

Flood-control dams above the communities of Arcadia, Sierra Madre, ... 4.5 million cubic yards from Pacoima Dam, which protects Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sun Valley, ...

Flood control, however, does not begin in the metro area; it begins at the Canadian headwaters of the river. There, a series of dams built under the provisions of the Columbia River Treaty have ...

When intact and functional, the Rapidan Dam was of minimal use in flood control; even at a time of record river levels, its failure was projected to have little effect on the Minnesota River at ...

La Crosse, Vernon and Monroe counties in southwest Wisconsin are home to a quarter of the large (PL-566) flood control dams in the State of Wisconsin. Built mostly in the ...

Vernon County officials said Friday that the county's 22 flood-control dams were battered and bruised, but still standing after handling nearly twice the rainfall for which they were designed.

Mahall said the spillway capacity and 100-year-flood capacity of the dams will be evaluated as part of the project. If work is needed, she said, it will be done on a cost-sharing basis with the ...

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 ...

These dams, apart from supplying electricity (3300 MW), would have significant flood control and mitigation capability. A few more dams could be constructed upstream of Makurdi on River Benue. One ...