Researchers are tracking how much sediment has been excavated since the river cut its new path. They hope to share the information with other communities with aging, at-risk dams.

National Dam Safety Awareness Day honors the lives lost during the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1889. The Johnstown disaster killed over 2,000 ...

The 14-mile trail follows the route of the 1889 Johnstown Flood that killed more than 2,000 people. ... 450 feet above the community and initially known as the Western Reservoir or South Fork Dam.

Federal grant awarded to repair flood damage from Rapidan Dam embankment failure. By Mitch Keegan. ... “The floods of 2024 took a heavy toll on southeastern and south-central Minnesota and when ...

The 14-mile trail follows the route of the devastating 1889 Johnstown Flood that killed over 2,000 ... 450 feet above the community and initially known as the Western Reservoir or South Fork Dam.

The Blue Earth River west bank’s failure at the Rapidan Dam in June 2024 eroded that side, drawing close to the home of Jim Hruska. The house eventually fell off the cliff and was washed into ...

Proper management and maintenance of dams is vital, to the public and customers associated with each dam. The issue of dam safety was not widely recognized until 1889, when the failure of South Fork ...

In April, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) ordered White Cloud to lower the impoundment to alleviate failure risk at its 152-year-old White River dam, a ...

The Bearspaw south feeder main, cutting across the Bow River, is buried in soil of the latter kind. A vehicle is submerged during the January 2004 water main break on McKnight Boulevard N.E. in ...

JOHNSTOWN — On the eve of the 1889 Johnstown Flood’s anniversary, local and state officials gathered to celebrate the Path of the Flood Trail being named Pennsylvania’s 2025 Trail of the Year.