Located adjacent to the Catawba River Treatment Plant, this $35-million project includes a 100-ft-high earthen embankment dam, a 1-billion-gallon reservoir as well as a 66-million-gallon-per-day raw ...

Until March 11, 2011 no people died from the failure or damage of a large water storage dam due to an earthquake. However, during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011, an ...

A team investigating the Oroville Dam spillway breach in February said it has not seen evidence that a comprehensive review of its construction and design has ever been conducted since it was built ...