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 ...

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 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 ...

While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...

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 ...

Early flood control measures such as retaining walls and river channel deepening projects, proved ineffective against major flood events, which is why building the Mount Morris Dam was necessary.

A Russian attack has damaged a dam in eastern Ukraine, causing water levels to rise along the nearby Vovcha River and posing a flood risk to nearby towns. This was reported by Ziare as coming from ...

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.

Beginning at 4 p.m., the federal Bureau of Reclamation will increase releases from Folsom Dam into the lower American River to 25,000 cubic feet per second from 20,000 cfs for flood control ...

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.

It took ten years and almost a billion dollars to improve Folsom Dam, and it might not have happened without another American flood disaster.