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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 ...
Intense flooding breached a dam in eastern Wisconsin on Friday and eroded the land around it, prompting officials to temporarily evacuate residents who live downstream.
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 ...
Pages in category "Dam failures in the United States" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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 was removed in the interest of fish passage and since the hydropower facilities had become obsolete. The dam was destroyed by dynamite at 6:35 PM on August 19, 1963, following two prior detonations that day which had failed to collapse the structure. [9] At the time, the dam was the largest ever to be removed, a record which stood for ...
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.
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).