Whitewater rafters portaged a boat for 16 miles beside the Kern River, protesting the removal of water for a hydropower plant ...

The move comes following rounds of rain that hit the Hill Country overnight Thursday and into Friday. AUSTIN, Texas — The ...

The state of Nevada bought the Marlette Lake water system in 1963 for $1.65 million. The system still supplies water to ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed $6.25 million that the Legislature budgeted for restoring the Ocklawaha River and dismantling the ...

Ethiopia’s prime minister says the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile has been completed. Egypt has long opposed the dam, calling it an existential threat to its water supply.

FLORENCE, Ala. ( WHNT) — The Wilson Lock Dam is officially reopen after closing for repairs back in September.

Plan underway to raise Folsom Dam FOLSOM — Big crowds were out at Folsom Lake on Memorial Day, and with a record-breaking snowpack, the lake is now nearly full. But there's also a large amount ...

Construction of the Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway was completed in 2017, and Dike 8, on the southeastern side of Folsom Lake, was raised 3.5 feet in 2020.

Hunter Souza/Getty The Folsom Dam and Reservoir is located approximately 23 miles northeast of Sacramento. The reservoir has a capacity of 976,000 acre-feet and is fed by the American River.

Folsom Lake, which sits behind the dam, can hold up to a million acre-feet of water or enough water to fill nearly half-a-million Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.

Plus, dam managers have to be mindful that a warmer storm could swamp the watershed with rain and snowmelt, sending a deluge into the lake and overwhelming Folsom Dam and the levees below it.