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

Flood control sometimes a dam difficult decision. Oct 31, 2014, ... This week, the Executive Board of the King County Flood Control District approved a proposed 2015 budget of $55.6 million, ...

Gov. Jerry Brown announced plans Friday to invest millions of dollars in flood-control measures, improve dam inspections and require all state-regulated dam owners to have plans in place to deal ...

The flood-control manuals are created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. California has more than 1,500 dams, 54 of which are considered primary flood-control structures.

The Tygart Dam near Grafton, W.Va., is among those built for flood control that are being eyed for retrofits to allow hydroelectric power. Army Corps Of Engineers ...

With nearly 12,000 USDA upstream flood control dams nationwide, two-thirds of which are past their original design life, Hunt believes the research provided by this facility is more important than ...

Brown was speaking of the 28 flood-control dams that New Hampshire owns, mostly in the Baker River valley in the White Mountains and the Souhegan River valley in the Monadnock Region.

Flood control reservoirs require relatively low water levels to accommodate flood waters, whereas hydroelectric dams need higher water elevations for maximum efficiency. As a result of this ...

Plaintiff provides data he collected between January and May 2023 — when the Corps was operating the dam for flood control operations — showing turbidity at the dam’s outlet is much higher and more ...

Current work on the Lockington Dam will help the flood control district predict the extent of the damage to the system’s other dams and how to fix them, said Don O’Connor, MCD’s chief of ...

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 ...