Geotechnical Engineering

The 2017 ASCE Report Card gave the nation's dams a grade of D, and warned that "the average age of the 90,580 dams in the country is 56 years."

The 2017 ASCE report card gave the nation's levee system a grade of D, and found that it will cost "an estimated $80 billion is needed in the next 10 years to maintain and improve the nation’s system of levees."

Videos, software, technical guides and reports, and guidelines for dam safety are available from this Federal agency's website.

A 2017 document from the Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI).

Links to important documents on the levee failures.

A complete guide to the design and construction of levees.

Articles and essays on the history and structural aspects of the dam.