The Altoona Water Authority’s $24.5 million renovation of the Bellwood dam is almost finished, according to authority consulting engineer Mark Glenn of Gwin, Dobson & Foreman. Site work is all that ...

Emergency crews and residents scrambled Friday as Helene — the hurricane downgraded to a tropical storm — overwhelmed the Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina, causing damage and erosion ...

A structural engineer assessed the Lake Lure dam Friday evening and determined its failure is not imminent, a town official said. The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday ...

LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier ...

The Lake Manatee dam was never built to hold back the massive ... Gamble Creek, and Pearce Drain watersheds. The firm has not been contracted, and officials are negotiating the scope of work ...

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that also disturbing to the residents is the report that Alau Dam, now filled, will be opened to discharge the excess water into the river at any moment.

Fatima Yakubu cannot believe that she and her six children are still alive after a dam collapsed following torrential rains in north-eastern Nigeria. The family, who live south of the city of ...

Hundreds of Maidguri residence don forcefully run commot from dia homes to seek refuge in oda communities as Alau dam burst sake of di heavy rainfall in di region. Di dam wey dey located 20km away ...

Located on the flank of the Mendenhall Glacier, the lake now drains multiple times every year ... These sudden releases occur when a dam holding back water adjacent to a glacier fails.

The Borno State Government has urged people of the state to protect themselves and their properties following the collapse of water channels at the Alau Dam as many have been displaced by flood.

The NEMA spokesperson said Borno’s flat ground geology made it easier for water to flow into passage areas in Maiduguri city, adding that the flood began after the Alau Dam overflowed following ...