The dam that holds back the drinking water for Dallas needs to be replaced. Mercer Dam is of those dams built in the 1950s with rock and dirt, which are not exactly seismically resilient materials ...

A 161-foot landslide along the Lewisville Lake Dam will be repaired, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says, and the dam will continue to operate as designed and intended. The USACE released a ...

GRAND PRAIRIE (CBSDFW.COM) - A professional river guide and an avid canoeist, Marc McCord lives for the water. "To me, it feels like I'm in heaven. It's the most serene, calm place I ever am in my ...

The opening in 1930 of a central pumping and purification plant at Bachman Lake dwarfed the Record Crossing and Turtle Creek stations and led to their demise. Little remains today. Mona Reeder - Staff ...

From Texas Standard: There is no doubt about it – America is in need of infrastructure repair. According to the American Society of Civil Engineers’ latest infrastructure report card, U.S.

You can probably trust the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on this one. The dam holding back Lake Lewisville probably isn’t going to fail in the immediate future. The 180 billion or so gallons of water ...

Pressure is building on the Lewisville Lake Dam, which lies 34 miles upstream from Dallas. Pressure is building on the Lewisville Lake Dam, which lies 34 miles upstream from Dallas. A breach in the ...

Police say emergency personnel could shut down a highway if a dam southwest of Dallas breaks. Water was flowing over the top of the earthen dam at Padera Lake, near Midlothian, early Wednesday morning ...

UPDATE (4:40 pm) I’ve put Councilman Philip Kingston’s response at the bottom of this post. Original item: Finally, the Philip Kingston exchange. I’d like to remind you what we’re talking about here.

The swollen Trinity River flooded a roadway in the Trinity River Greenbelt Park on May 29, 2015, in Dallas. During the same rains, a scare upstream at the Lewisville Dam made repairing and upgrading ...