Remediation begins on Center Hill Dam, Tenn.

Dr. Dave has a nice post about rapid drawdown slope failures and he ties it in to a neat video (below) of the removal of the Condit Dam in Washington state. The video shows some […]

Part of the dam collapsed in July during flooding by the Maquoketa River, draining a nine-mile lake. FEMA officials decided the dam wasn’t elligible for federal emergency funding because it is owned by a private […]

Blasting for the New York MTA’s Second Avenue Subway project unexpectedly showered the street level with debris, damaging buildings. Fortunately there were no injuries. Some debris reached the height of a 5 story building. [Source: […]