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Up to 100 homes in Manawa in central Wisconsin, including a nursing home, were evacuated Friday after erosion caused the bank at the edge of the Manawa Mill Pond dam to fail.
"In the years to come, state and local leaders face difficult choices about where to invest in maintaining and improving dams," a new report said.
The dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached Friday afternoon by rain-driven floodwaters that eroded an estimated 50-foot-wide (15.2-meter-wide) portion of the dam, said Manawa ...
1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County, Romania: Dam: 89 dead, 76 injured 1972: Buffalo Creek Flood: West Virginia, US: Dam: 125 dead, 1,121 injured 1972: Königs Wusterhausen Central Tower: Königs Wusterhausen, Germany: Lattice tower: 1973 Skyline Towers collapse: Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia, US Building under ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Wisconsin.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Pages in category "Dam failures" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
A dam in an eastern Wisconsin community has been breached, prompting people living downriver to be evacuated, the National Weather Service said Friday. The dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf ...
Dam #3's failure was followed by heavy rains. The water from dam #3 then overwhelmed dams #2 and #1. The resulting flood unleashed approximately 132 million US gallons (500,000 cubic metres; 500 million litres) of black waste water, cresting over 30 feet (9.1 m) high, upon the residents of 16 coal towns along Buffalo Creek Hollow.