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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.
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 Edenville Dam in Midland County, Michigan, failed on May 19, sending a huge blast of water into the already flooded Sanford Lake and prompting evacuations.Footage shot downriver from the dam ...
The “catastrophic" failure of two dams in central Michigan unleashed swirling floodwaters that prompted the evacuation of more than 10,000 people — with some regions bracing for a record high ...
A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, ... Sanford Dam: 2020-05-19 Sanford, Michigan: United States 0
Michigan’s Edenville Dam burst following heavy rainfall on May 19, forcing the evacuation of communities downstream.The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood warning for the length of ...
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. In Saginaw County, the river flows through Tittabawassee Township , which is named for the river and contains the unincorporated community of Freeland .