May 31 (UPI) --When it comes to repairing the tallest dam in America, sometimes it helps to shrink the problem to a more manageable size. That's why California water officials are relying on a scale ...

As engineers at California’s Oroville dam began to investigate what led to the failure of the main spillway during heavy runoff in February and analyze solutions, they looked for help nearly a ...

There has long been a concern among civil engineers that dams could fail days or weeks after an earthquake, even if no immediate evidence of a problem surfaced. Their concern has focused on possible ...

Beavers and the dams they build promote sediment deposition and modify channel and floodplain morphology and physical complexity. Beaver activities may result in increased watershed-scale water and ...

When the Oroville Dam spillway cracked and failed after a wet California winter, a team of scientists created a one fiftieth–scale model of the damaged concrete and eroded hillside to help guide the ...