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The tug Theresa L. Wood heads upstream after locking through Lock and Dam #8 in May in Genoa, Wis. The vessel was moving barges from St. Louis to Winona, Minn. The locks allow the boats to gradually ...

How many times have you said, “I wish the days were longer”? Well, NASA scientists say the construction of China’s Three ...

CENTRAL TEXAS — The Highland Lakes, their flows and storage units are extremely important to the Hill Country and Austin metro. Lakes Travis and Buchanan -- the region's water supply reservoirs -- ...

A dam without a spillway is a disaster waiting to happen. Learn how these vital structures control floods, balance water storage, and prevent catastrophic failures, all while remaining one of the most ...

The earthen dam is located in a park east of Alpine Road. How does the dam work? Alpine Dam includes a swampy water basin, a gate that controls how much water is released into Keith Creek, a tall hill ...

Dams and levees are critical pieces of our infrastructure and our history. They're one of the oldest type of human-made structures on the planet, and they were one of the first things that that ...

Officials in Harris and Montgomery County encouraged residents to make preparations to seek shelter elsewhere as weather predictions showed the effects of Thursday's storms could worsen throughout the ...