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A building was seen floating down the Tittabawassee River in Sanford, Michigan, on May 19, after the nearby Edenville Dam breached.Two dams in Michigan — Edenville and Sandford — burst ...
This video shows water bursting through the dam bank wall as bystanders look on.Local media reported that the evacuations would include the towns of Edenville, Sanford and parts of the city of ...
Sanford Lake was a man-made reservoir located in Midland County, Michigan, but is no longer present since the failure of the dam in May 2020. It was formed by the damming of the Tittabawassee River near the village of Sanford, Michigan. It was built for flood control and the production of hydroelectric power. The dam is owned and operated by ...
Edenville Dam was an earthen embankment dam at the confluence of the Tittabawassee River and the Tobacco River in Mid Michigan, United States, forming Wixom Lake.The dam was about one mile (1.6 km) north of Edenville, mostly in the southeast corner of Tobacco Township in Gladwin County, with its southeastern end reaching into Edenville Township in Midland County.
Significant communities on or near the Tittabawassee River include Saginaw, Midland, and Sanford. At Edenville, the river was impounded by the hydroelectric Edenville Dam to create Wixom Lake . It was also impounded by a hydroelectric dam in Sanford to create Sanford Lake prior to the dam failures and resulting flooding on May 19, 2020.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer said that following the failure of the Edenville and Sanford dams, water levels in downtown Midland could reach 9 feet (2.7 metres) high in the next 12-15 hours.
The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]
The dam failed in August, leaving township officials scrambling to raise money to pay for removal of the 1840s-era dam. 'The dam is continuing to fail.' Duplain Twp. raising money for Elsie Dam ...