The class has been raising trout and learning about water sheds this year and today the kids got to release them into the Francis Walter Dam. All of the students let the trout into the water at ...

After the St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, engineers applied lessons learned to expansive dam projects in the American West. Beginning in the 1930s, large dams were built on important watersheds ...

In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...