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Next, a hearing examining ways to increase water storage and conservation in western states we also heard about water supply infrastructure. Held by a Senate Energy subcommittee, this is an hour. The hearing of the Senate Energy Natural Resources subcommittee on power and water will come to order. I want to apologize for being tardy. Im trying to be in a few places at once. Thanks for your patience. Throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. The infrastructure took centuries to...

Subcommittee on power and water will come to order. I want to apologize for being tardy. Im trying to be in a few places at once. Thanks for your patience. Throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. The infrastructure took centuries to build. And has allowed our cities to grow and our farms to prosper. Without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the American West would not be the bread basket or worldwide destination that it is today. It has taken tremendous foresigh...

The Bureau of Reclamation, with the help of Greenfields Irrigation District of Fairfield, will be improving the spillway at Willow Creek Reservoir, beginning April 1. The improvements at the spillway

New Mexico Highway 539 over Navajo Dam, located about 45 miles east of Farmington, will be closed to traffic from Wednesday, Feb. 28, to May 15. Traffic detours will re-route traffic traveling betwee...

Contractors will also dig up 355 tons of sediment that is so heavily polluted that it has to be shipped out of the state.

The concerning conditions of high-hazard dams like those spotlighted in Eagle reporting highlight the need to take this systemic infrastructure problem seriously at the state level so that local governments

The "inundation area" should the dam fail also includes one of the regions major hospitals — Berkshire Medical Center.

AJ Media Editorial Board When last we checked on the ancient and somewhat uncertain McMillan Dam at Buffalo Springs Lake, it was deemed “scary,” but not an imminent threat to public safety. That said, authorities from several municipal agencies were working together to secure a grant that would in turn be used to help secure the structure. McMillan Dam, according to our earlier stories, was built in the 1970s. It keeps the Buffalo Springs Lake water level flat with the overflow spilling dow...

The city of Sandy Springs is making some progress on its efforts to keep the Lake Forrest Dam safe. “This issue has been on your plate for a long, long time, since 2009,” City Attorney Dan Lee told the Sandy Springs City Council, referring to the dam’s safety issues that started then. “The biggest problem for the city, aside from protecting the citizenry, is this dam makes up (part of) a principal roadway, Lake Forrest Drive.” At its meeting Dec. 15, which was held virt...