DALLAS Tempe, Ariz., has allocated $40.8 million to build the nation’s largest steel dam on Town Lake, three years after the original rubber dam collapsed and released nearly a billion gallons of ...

One of the largest hinged crest-gate dams of its kind in the country is under construction in the Salt River in Tempe, Ariz. Also one of the largest hydraulically operated steel-gate dams in the ...

The committee in charge of choosing a new design for the Tempe Town Lake’s west dam held an open house Monday at the Tempe Center for the Arts to discuss their progress. The entire lake drained in ...

An investigation into what caused a break at the Tempe Town Lake dam has revealed the rubberized dam was working properly up until the minute it failed. The City of Tempe said in a news release Monday ...

Tempe has selected a candidate for a design consultant position, who will head a project to permanently replace the West dam of Tempe Town Lake. If approved by the city council in their June 16 ...

The rubber dam that burst at Tempe Town Lake was fully intact until the moment it blew out, air pressure readings of the dam reveal. Records released Monday show Tempe had known for two years about an ...

Tempe plans two-year warranty on 50-year, $40.8 million dam City officials say the warranty is an industry standard Engineering experts say no dam is alike, so there is no such thing as an industry ...

A dam on the west side of Tempe Town Lake is expected to be completed by the end of 2015 — and it won’t be made out of balloons this time. In 2010, one of these balloons (“bladders” is the term the ...

TEMPE - Tempe Town Lake are holding a dedication ceremony on Saturday morning for a new dam that has been installed, and they're encouraging the public to get outdoors and enjoy the lake. The ceremony ...

An inflatable dam in downtown Tempe gave way just before 10pm last night, quickly filling the normally dry Salt River bed downstream with millions of gallons of water. The dam failure was immediately ...