When a new $373 million project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Folsom Lake is finished, Folsom Dam will be three-and-a-half feet taller — and flood risk in Sacramento will hopefully be ...

Folsom Dam has long quietly served as a backstop for Sacramento, offering critical flood protection to one of the most at-risk metropolitan areas in the country. But a few scary winter storms in ...

Work is underway at Folsom Lake to raise the dam and dikes surrounding it by an additional 3.5 feet to lower flood risk to the Sacramento region.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing the ...

Federal Army Corps flood control agency will raise Folsom Dam more than 3 feet to increase reservoir, lake storage and help Sacramento CA have 200-year flood risk management level along American ...

Roseville, which also is near Folsom Dam, used FEMA grant money to create its own inundation maps showing the affects of a potential dam failure. But the city still encountered difficulties trying ...

FOLSOM, Calif. (KTXL) — Federal, state and local officials broke ground on a $440 million project Tuesday to raise the level of the Folsom Dam by 3 and a half feet, increasing its flood ...

Two days after dam operators began releasing additional water from Folsom Lake, officials said the only other alternative would be to risk a catastrophic flood. Skip to content NOWCAST KCRA 3 News ...