Spillways, tumbleholes, cubbyholes, call them what you will. They are the small, sometimes fish infested pockets that lie immediately below a lake or dam face. They may all but dry up in the summer of ...

The call for help goes like this: "We've got a pond that used to hold water, but this summer it's way down." After eliminating drought or water supply as the problem, the question becomes, "How is the ...

Dam experts around the country are focusing on a leading suspect: Tiny bubbles. The prospect is simple, yet terrifying and has been the culprit in a number of near disasters at dams across the globe ...

UPDATE: California’s Dept. of Water Resources is promising to complete by this fall a “forensic” study of February’s near-catastrophic collapse of two spillways at Oroville Dam in Butte County. DWR is ...

OROVILLE — Five years after the Oroville Dam spillway crisis, DWR has completed the structural rebuild of the main and emergency spillways and says it backs the spillways’ safety. The rebuilt main ...