Perhaps the most high-profile instance is the recent removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, which runs from Oregon through California to the Pacific Ocean. In Wisconsin ...

They range from massive hydroelectric concrete dams, such as the Prairie du Sac Dam on the Wisconsin River, to small earthen dams that create farm ponds. As these dams age and rain events become ...

Wisconsin is seeing more frequent dam failures in another sign that the storms blowing through the state are growing stronger. Wisconsin recorded 34 dam failures from 2000 through 2023 ...

The Effigy Mounds are one of the densest collections still existing in North America, but the Mississippi River is eating ...

The term "dells" is derived from the name that 18th-century French explorers gave the area on the earliest maps ... down the Wisconsin River, up Dell Creek and over a dam into Lake Delton.

Since 2000, more dams have failed in Wisconsin than in almost any other state, a new report has found, raising questions about how they will fare under more frequent and severe rain events driven by ...