This commission was to negotiate with other New England states a means of sharing costs in a system of flood-control dams.

Near its mouth, a flood-control dam causes the creek to form Wills Creek Lake.

This time around, state and Federal officials say, the levees and flood-control dams in the Sacramento drainage system worked as they were supposed to.

The bill championed by Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, would have put restraints on new flood-control dams and levees.

Rain like this, I doubt those flood-control dams will hold very long.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers operate a small flood-control dam within this Indian Reservation.

It's a thriving habitat because cold water discharged from a flood-control dam upstream keeps its temperatures under 60 degrees, which is ideal for trout.

Along with the Rock Island district's three Iowa dams, the Army Corps district office in St. Paul manages 16 flood-control dams.

In the next decade, federally financed flood-control dams were built near Winsted and other communities.

Fort Worth installed its whitewater at the city-owned Trinity Park within the last year, while it was rehabilitating some worn-out flood-control dams.