Wait. Surely it’s only the highest earthfill dam in the U.S. After all, what about Hoover Dam? Turns out, the famous landmark falls just short of Oroville Dam at 726 feet in height.

BC Hydro has reached a major milestone on the Site C project this week. The earthfill dam stands about 60 metres tall (the height of a 20-story building), stretches more than one kilometre across ...

Built on the Vaitarna River, Vaitarna Dam near Igatpuri is a gravity and earthfill dam. The dam, a popular tourist destination, offers a spectacular view of the beautiful Western Ghats. The dam ...

A $1-billion upgrade to the B.F. Sisk Dam in California’s Central Valley was launched this month as part of an effort to reduce the impact of severe seismic events on the 55-year-old earthfill ...

A trio of spillway failures at the 770-ft-tall earthfill Oroville Dam that prompted the evacuation of more than 188,000 people from central California has renewed questions about the reliability ...

The U.S. Forest Service has begun draining Lion Lake near Hungry Horse in order to repair two dams that are more than 70 years old. Recent surveys found one of the earthfill dams is leaking and at ...

It is thought he was disposed of by his employer at an earthfill dam near a cemetery on Monday. On Tuesday, Yilan police received a report from the Thai consulate that a family could not reach the ...

THE NATIONAL Irrigation Administration (NIA) said on Thursday that the contract agreement for an earthfill dam in the northern Luzon province of Cagayan has already been signed, marking the beginning ...

Visits by officials of the state mining department to under-construction industrial units in various parts of Punjab, asking the owners to pay “royalty” at ₹ 2 per cubic feet for earthfill ...

The projects named were the P322.83-million Ibato-Iraan earthfill dam in Aborlan, Palawan; the Alfonso Lista Pump Irrigation Project in the province of Ifugao worth P455.84 million; the P333.37 ...

The earthfill dam stands about 60 metres tall (the height of a 20-story building), stretches more than one kilometre across the Peace River and is about 500 metres wide at its base. The Site C project ...