Gov. Scott Walker has proclaimed this week “Dam Safety Awareness Week” in Wisconsin, and Xcel Energy is reminding recreational and fishing enthusiasts to be safe around dams and hydroelectric facilities. “Boating or canoeing above or below a dam can be very dangerous, especially if the flow changes and your boat is anchored in a hazardous […]

LEWISTON, NY – The Niagara Power Project keeps churning out hydroelectric power with its newly installed turbines, just as it has for the past 56 years. The state’s hydropower supports some 400,000 jobs, New York Power Authority President and CEO Gil C. Quiniones said at the plant Thursday. Many of the jobs are in new, […]

Federal energy regulators will allow Pacific Power to continue operating the Wallowa Falls hydro project for the next 40 years, while also requiring additional protections for bull trout in the Wallowa River. The facility, located south of Joseph near Wallowa Lake, consists of a dam on the river’s east fork that diverts water to a […]

Regular inspections show Canyon Lake Dam, CA meets all safety standards. Recent rains have not compromised the structure’s integrity. The dam at Canyon Lake is inspected daily by Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District and continues to meet all state safety standards. Recent rain-related issues at Lake Oroville in Northern California has raised awareness of dam […]

PITTSBURGH, PA (AP) — Imagine 160 miles of continuous open water on the Allegheny River from the Kinzua Dam in Warren County to the Natrona dam in Harrison. It’s not just a dream; it’s the subject of two studies: The nonprofit American Rivers, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is studying and advocating for the removal of […]

A key House committee next week will begin the slow process of turning President Trump’s aspiration of a $1 trillion infrastructure initiative into reality. Trump renewed his campaign call for a massive push to update the nation’s roads, bridges, public transportation systems, pipelines and ports during his address to Congress last month, but so far […]

The White House was pressured this week by President Donald Trump to map out a plan for $1 trillion in infrastructure spending, one of Trump’s key promises during his presidential campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported. The Journal said the plan would push states to streamline local permitting, favor renovation of existing roads and highways […]

Kittitas County’s WA dams are safe and it would take a Cascadia-earthquake-level event to cause a failure like the one that occurred at the Oroville dam, officials said this week. More than 200,000 people living downstream from the Oroville Dam in California were evacuated earlier this month after engineers noticed damage to an emergency spillway. […]

Hoover gets all the glory, but Nevada is home to more than 650 dams, nearly a quarter of which are classified as “high hazard” because of what could happen if they fail. State records identify 133 dams in Clark County alone, including 67 high-hazard structures, most of them flood detention basins perched above — and […]

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) today released its 4-year report on the health of our nation’s infrastructure. What grade is the U.S. making? The same grade we got in 2013: a D+. The American Infrastructure Report Card looks at 16 different categories of the government that make up the infrastructure Americans use on a […]