SCRANTON – Lackawanna County hired a firm to design and engineer the eventual reconstruction of the No. 5 Dam on Montage Mountain, an important safety project supported by federal funds. Built between ...

The Three Gorges Dam was built on the Yangtze River and is known as the most powerful dam by hydroelectric capacity to date.

In the developed world there is really nothing natural about the way we get our water. Dams produce hydroelectric power and the reservoirs behind dams store water supplies for the long haul.

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More than a dozen dams have failed this week in South Carolina amid catastrophic flooding that has destroyed homes and businesses and left more than a dozen people dead. Authorities are warning that ...