Othman Mahmoud al-Barazinj is a farmer who has been living in the shadow of Iraq’s largest dam ever since the colossal facility was established in the 1980s. Now in his 60s, Othman and fellow villagers in the town of Wana, 22 miles (35km) north-east of Mosul, still depend on the dam as a vital source […]

The Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continues its efforts to repair the 161-foot long embankment slide which occurred during the floods last year at the Lewisville Lake Dam. Bristol General Contractors, LLC, the slide repair contractor, has been on site since last week and is constructing haul roads on government property next […]

The headline above is from the April 25th editorial in the Boston Globe. The editorial underscores the tremendous importance of hydro, particularly the new hydro coming from Hydro Quebec via the “Northern Pass” project, in meeting the goals of the EPA Clean Power Plan for states in the Northeast. Kinder-Morgan recently withdrew plans to construct […]

April 25, 2016 For Immediate Release Contact: Denise Bunte-Bisnett, P.E., PMP, Principal Engineer, Coal Combustion Products and Waste Management, Moncks Corner, SC 29461-610, 843-761-8000, ext. 5379 One of the most coveted scholarships in civil and environmental engineering was awarded April 13, 2016 to a University of South Carolina CEE doctoral candidate. Ali Tabrizi is this […]

Our partners at ASCE reported on April 22nd that “Sen Jack Reed (D-RI) and Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced bipartisan legislation Thursday that would provide funding assistance to rehabilitate, repair or remove nonfederal high hazard deficient dams. ASCE’s 2013 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure gave the nation’s dams a grade of “D” and recommended that […]

USSD’s outgoing Chair of the Member Committee, Bill Hover of GZA of Norwood Massachusetts, and incoming USSD Executive Director Gene Guilford of Simsbury, CT, inspected the Tuller Reservoir Dam in Simsbury, CT on April 18th. The Tuller Reservoir Dam is an earth embankment built about 1900 and impounding Hop Brook in Simsbury, Connecticut. The dam […]