Dam repair at Tempe Town Lake took a visible leap forward Monday as crews installed the first of eight steel gates. “This is a real milestone where we are at,” said Tempe spokeswoman Nikki Ripley.

Tempe will begin emptying Town Lake on Feb. 10 to complete work on a new dam, a process that will close the popular attraction to all activities until at least late April.

Tempe Town Lake is empty after one of four rubber dams on the south end tore late Tuesday night. The lake is expected to be closed until early November while a new dam structure is put in place.

PHOENIX — The Tempe City Council has voted to pump another $24 million into a dam project at Town Lake that is expected to be completed in 2015. The move was approved during Thursday night’s ...

Tempe Town Lake is one step closer to reaching the finish line on its latest project: ... Final drainage of Tempe Town Lake complete ahead of dam construction. Mar 22, 2016, 5:30 AM.

Kayaking, boating, fishing and paddle-boating at Tempe Town Lake will be put on hold for the next two months as officials continue to construct a hydraulic steel dam. As a result, beginning Feb ...

TEMPE, Ariz. (KSAZ) - Nearly a billion gallons of water is being pumped out of Tempe Town Lake as crews work on installing a new dam at the west end. The pumping began on Wednesday and the new dam ...

Tempe Town Lake held a dedication ceremony on Saturday morning for a new dam that has been installed, and they’re encouraging the public to get outdoors and enjoy the lake.

The 16-foot-high section of the dam on Tempe Town Lake near Arizona State University's main campus broke open at about 10 p.m. Tuesday.

Tempe Town Lake, a 16-year-old manmade creation that transformed a 2-mile stretch of the normally dry Salt River bed into a place for public recreation and relaxation along with spurring economic ...

The Tempe Town Lake dam replacement project was deemed the American Society of Civil Engineers Phoenix branch project of the year. Last year's project to replace the dam on the west end of Tempe ...

A dam on the west side of Tempe Town Lake is expected to be completed by the end of 2015 -- and it won't be made out of balloons this time.In 2010, one of these balloons ("bladders" is the term ...