In November 2019 engineers switched on the 18th and final turbine at Brazil’s Belo Monte Dam: the final step in an odyssey of planning and construction that had started almost 50 years earlier. The ...

Nearly two dozen government officials met Wednesday to discuss different retrofitting options for one of the state’s most important and imperiled water sources. Scoggins Dam was built in the early ...

Reflecting problems at other aging reservoirs, a $200 million project to drain and repair one of the Bay Area’s largest dams to reduce the risk of it collapsing in a major earthquake will double in ...

Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) has approved a $1.88bn construction contract to carry out a major seismic retrofit of Anderson Dam, the largest reservoir in Santa Clara County, ...

Local business owners say the Perris Dam Modernization Project is hurting them. Now they're in a battle against the California Department of Water Resources, the agency in charge of the construction.

ELK CREEK — It may not be apparent to those lazily enjoying the serene waters and golden hills of Stony Gorge Reservoir about 21 miles northwest of Willows, but just over the dam, there’s a whole lot ...

Geologists are getting a better idea of what it will take to protect thousands of people from a major flood below a South Bay dam. The Santa Clara Valley Water District is working on a seismic ...