Miles named director of Corps' Hydroelectric Design Center

Inspections begin after barge sections hit Marseilles Dam

Over time, water flowing through the three penstocks at the 90-MW Cushman No. 2 powerhouse resulted in pits and eroded areas on the butterfly valves used to shut off water supply to the turbines.

When spillway capacity at L.L. Anderson Dam caused concern to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which owns Folsom Dam downstream, MWH Global designed modifications to the spillway by increasing its capacity, reducing the risk to the people and communities downstream while maintaining the dam's ability to impound water for domestic and irrigation water supply and power generation.

Why should you attend HydroVision International 2013? It provides the tools you need to do your job better, all under one roof: the opportunity to attend organization meetings, tour hydro facilities, participate in specialized workshops, hear presentations from high-level speakers, connect with hydro professionals from throughout the world and much more.

Senate Energy Committee passes hydroelectric bills to full Senate for voting

Officials from Vietnam's Gia Lai province said a dam at the Krel 2 hydropower project burst around 3 a.m. local time, damaging factories and flooding hundreds of acres of farmland.

Global infrastructure firm Gannett Fleming has named Rod Holderbaum as its new Dams and Hydraulics Practice leader, the Pennsylvania-based company has announced.

Tractebel Engineering SA has been awarded a US$438,390 contract to supervise renovations and foundation drainage of the 2-MW Bimont micro hydroelectric plant.

Indian developers have canceled development of two large hydropower projects planned for construction in Myanmar, sources report.

Flooding in south-eastern Europe has pushed hydropower development and its role in managing water flows to the top of the political agenda this week. With multiple deaths reported, the Danube, the Elbe and other major rivers in the region have seen Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic all affected by rising water levels. 

Utilities are being forced to shutter their hydropower projects and dams are proving ineffective as central Europe has been facing its worst flooding in decades.

As Elias Unger awoke on the morning of May 31, 1889, he noticed that a record overnight downpour had caused Lake Conemaugh to almost crest the South Fork Dam, located down the hill from his farmhouse in central Pennsylvania.