The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Forest Service and local volunteer fire departments will conduct the burns on the Oahe Dam. The burns are scheduled to begin on April 7. This will cause ...

The existing 90-year-old spillway is located left of the earth-filled dam. Reclamation photo The US Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has awarded a $115.9 million construction contract to AMES Federal ...

A section of S.D. Highway 204, across from the Oahe Dam northwest of Pierre, will be temporarily closed Monday (April 7, 2025) while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers administers a controlled burn of ...

Spillway replacement and dam reconstruction on Mirror Lake began at the University of Connecticut over spring break with workers fencing the project site. The work is expected to last around a year ...

February 2017 saw one of the most serious dam-related engineering incidents in history with the failure of the service spillway at Oroville Dam. Whether they realized it or not, the people living ...

GREAT FALLS — NorthWestern Energy is continuing work on a project to upgrade the spillway of the Black Eagle Dam on the Missouri River. This project is designed to enhance the safety and ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers has opened up nearly all of the Table Rock Dam spillway gates on Saturday. The agency says crews opened gates 1 through 9 to 1 foot each at 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

A spillway event is not a failure of the dam. A spillway event just means that the dam has reached its storage capacity and we are unable to hold back the lake above a specified elevation. The ...

UPDATE: The spillway gate has been closed and Unit 1 has been returned to service. BEAVER LAKE, Ark. (USACE) — Due to a maintenance issue with one of the hydropower turbines, Beaver Dam began ...

High water levels at Lake Oroville this weekend prompted authorities to use the dam's emergency spillway for the first time in its nearly 50-year history. The main spillway had suffered unexpected ...

so a barge can deliver equipment and materials to crews on the dam for the project. The project involves installing new support structures and components of the spillway to improve the integrity of ...