Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of the 64 state-owned dams classified as “high hazard” – meaning their failure could result in loss of life – 33 are in poor ...

Kinneytown Dam in Seymour looks practically idyllic rimmed in two-day-old mid-February snow as the Naugatuck River cascades off its ledges. But this hulk of a structure, however majestically flowing, ...

Over several days, what had been a low-key fishing hole in a far-flung corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula disappeared. After heavy rains last June, the wooden stoplogs on a dam that held back the ...

Could a flood control dam end up causing a flood? Well, if so much rain fell that it overtopped the dam, causing a breach, all the water the dam had held back would flow downstream. With a flood ...

MORE. THE UPSTATE HAS A BIG PROBLEM AND ITS RIPPLE EFFECTS IMPACT COMMUNITIES MILES DOWNSTREAM. IF THAT DAM WERE TO BREAK, MY GUESS IS THAT FLOW RIGHT OVER THE DAM WOULD BRING MUD, GO RIGHT IN THIS ...