Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shasta Dam, near Redding in Northern California, stands 602 feet tall and is one of the major obstacles to a run of wild salmon.

The Marin Municipal Water District is exploring options to increase its storage capacity by modifying spillways on reservoir dams. The district board recently authorized spending up to $2.2 million to ...

The Department of the Interior announced yesterday a $40 million allocation for the pre-construction and planning of the ...

Three dam expansion projects could increase water storage for use in the Central Valley by a whopping 304,000 acre feet. Each of the projects would raise existing dams, not build new ones. The project ...

The Shasta Dam, in Northern California's Shasta County, could be raised to store more water under a new $40 million federal ...

PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KFSN) -- After decades of planning and construction, the Richard L. Schafer Dam Spillway at Lake Success is officially complete. Leaders say this large reservoir will dramatically ...

EVERGLADES, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis celebrated the opening of a new dam in southwest Florida Tuesday morning. The more than 55 billion-gallon reservoir will help triple South Florida’s water storage ...