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The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States.
A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Johnstown Flood National Memorial is a unit of the United States National Park Service. [2] [3] Established in 1964 [4] through legislation signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, [5] [6] it pays tribute to the thousands of victims of the Johnstown Flood, who were injured or killed on May 31, 1889 when the South Fork Dam ruptured.
Johnstown is the largest city in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. [9] ... 1889, occurred after the South Fork Dam collapsed 14.1 miles (22.7 km) ...
The earthen dam failed on May 31, 1889, causing the Johnstown Flood that killed more than 2,200 people downstream. An estimated 14.3 million tons of water from Lake Conemaugh were released, wreaking devastation along the valley of South Fork Creek and the Little Conemaugh River and the dozen miles downstream to Johnstown, Pennsylvania .
Conemaugh River Lake Dam near Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. The Conemaugh River is formed at Johnstown (site of the Johnstown Flood) in southwestern Cambria County by the confluence of the Little Conemaugh and Stonycreek rivers.
The Laurel Run Dam, also known as Laurel Run Dam No. 2, was an earthen embankment dam that failed during the Johnstown Flood of 1977.It had the largest reservoir of seven dams to fail between July 19 and 20, 1977 and caused the most fatalities of the two that did.
The Laurel Run Dam on Laurel Run was an old earthen dam originally owned by the Bethlehem Steel company and later sold to the Johnstown Water Company. This dam had a 42 + 1 ⁄ 2-foot-high (13.0 m) spillway, and when it failed about 101 million US gallons (380,000 m 3) of water was released. After the dam failed, water rushed through the ...