Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Nebraska. 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 ).
Dam safety may refer to: Dam safety systems - used for monitoring the safety status of dams Reservoir safety - the risks to dams and reservoirs and the legislation and guidelines in place to ensure dams and reservoirs are safe.
Fire Barn 5 (Elgin, Illinois) Fire Museum of Greater Cincinnati; Fire Museum of Maryland; Fire Museum of Memphis; Fire Museum of Texas; Firefighters Association of the State of New York; Fort Lauderdale Fire and Safety Museum
National Dam Safety Day. Related: Huff Run tour to include visit to Dover Dam. The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, which has about 14 dams, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers organized ...
The legislation authorising this program was last amended by The Dam Safety Act of 2006. Although some 79 people were killed by dam failures in 1979 at the Laurel Run Dam and at the Kelly Barnes Dam, it is likely that only a single death in the US has been caused by subsequent failures which was below the failed Spencer Dam. [7]
Dam safety systems are used to monitor the state of dams, including external physical threats to the dams, and issuing emergency warnings at various degrees of automation. This includes the use of differential GPS and SAR remote sensing to monitor the risks imposed by landslides and subsidence .
A group of fire history buffs and other interested people wished to purchase and turn it into a museum that would display a large collection of fire fighting memorabilia. [2] The Tulsa World reported on July 29, 2015, that the building had been sold to The Carol Tandy Foundation, a private organization, which would donate it to Tulsa ...
This list of museums in Nebraska encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.