As portions of the dam collapsed on Sunday night within a year after the structure was commissioned, Opposition parties, ...

A tailings dam is a type of embankment dam, designed to contain mining waste. Melting snow and pounding rain caused the wall of the dam to give way, releasing tons of cyanide into a local stream.

A portion of the dam built by the Bengal irrigation department on the Atrayee river in Balurghat of South Dinajpur district ...

S tanding on the tall clay cliffs along the banks of the Missouri River in South Dakota I look out at the cedar-covered hills that are the gateway to the western plains. Although I am in South ...

Aswan Dam, across the river Nile in Egypt, is the world's largest embankment dam. A dam is a barrier that blocks water to create a human-made lake called a reservoir. Dams can be used to produce ...

Most of that embankment was reinforced after an analysis ... The PUD is required to analyze the risk of dam failure, he said, any and every possible kind of failure. That analysis suggested ...