dams

The Temple of Sinawava dam, built in 1957, kept native fish like flannelmouth suckers pinned downstream on the Virgin River.

Nearly 1,800 residents of Panguitch had been on high alert in the days since inspectors discovered an unexpected 60-foot crack in the Panguitch Lake Dam on Monday night.

Utah state officials are hurriedly trying to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot crack opened and sent water pouring into a creek and endangering the 1,700 residents of a downstream town.

More than 200 dams across Utah are classified as high hazard, meaning they’d pose a significant threat to people and property downstream if they failed.

Crews quickly extinguished a transformer that caught fire near the base of the Hoover Dam.

A scenic stretch of the Bear River just north of the Utah line has been eyed for years as the proposed site for the Bear River Narrows Dam.But staff for…

Federal regulators are snubbing plans for a new dam on the Bear River in Idaho that’s has lots of local critics.The Twin Lakes Canal Company in Idaho…