As massive floodwaters pushed the dam toward disaster, engineers made the terrifying decision to let the spillway collapse on purpose to prevent a catastrophic failure that could have devastated ...

The Lake Oroville spillway’s 400-acre construction site is an intense flurry of activity. In one corner, an excavator driver uses an old tire as a squeegee to clean away loose rock and prep a ...

The Boundary Dam, located on the Pend Oreille River in northeastern Washington state, is as visually striking as it is geographically remote. The dam’s pair of unique sloped spillways are cut into ...

The nation’s tallest dam reopened its spillway on Tuesday, more than two years after it failed and forced nearly 200,000 people to evacuate their homes, authorities announced. Construction crews have ...

Spillway at Lake D'Arbonne in Farmerville open, flooding downstream throughout bayou expected ...

Two years after the main spillway at Oroville Dam failed, causing the evacuation of 188,000 people, state water officials said Tuesday that they are planning to allow water to run down the rebuilt ...

Two years ago the city of Oroville stood in awe as millions of gallons of water eroded the main spillway of the nation’s largest dam, sending a deluge of water cascading down a hillside and forcing ...