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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Flood of 1913 caused floodwaters to reach 20 feet high in Dayton, devastating the city and many other communities.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But for some, that value goes beyond flood control. On a nice day, it's common to see dozens of cars parked at the Maple Dale dam, Sheldon said, where people like to recreate.

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 ...