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 ...

Folsom Dam is embarking on an expansion to increase the reservoir’s storage and strengthen flood control.

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 ...

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 prote… ...

Despite California’s drought, the federal Bureau of Reclamation is releasing water from Folsom Lake into the American River to keep Sacramento from flooding.

The project's primary goal is to increase the Sacramento region's flood protection, but it will also allow Folsom Lake to store an extra 42,000 acre-feet of water.

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 ...

Despite California’s drought, the federal Bureau of Reclamation is releasing water from Folsom Lake into the American River to keep Sacramento from flooding.

The $1 billion Folsom Dam spillway project is the most significant single investment in our region’s flood protection infrastructure in the last quarter-century.

An Associated Press review has found that thousands of people may be paying more for flood insurance or remain unaware of the dangers of dam failures because of conflicting federal policies.

Despite California’s drought, the federal Bureau of Reclamation is releasing water from Folsom Lake into the American River to keep Sacramento from flooding.