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The north end of the dam abutment and the farm of Elias Unger, now the visitor center of the Johnstown Flood Museum View of the lake bed from top of the dam May 1889 view of the broken dam from the roadway May 5, 2013 view of the center section of the dam that gave way Lake Conemaugh's spillway as it appeared in 1980 Wreck of Pullman cars and ...
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.
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 ...
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.
During the 1860s, the Johnstown Water Company was planning new infrastructure to meet the municipal water needs of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Laurel Run and Wild Cat Creeks were initially selected as sources and a dam was constructed on Laurel Run Creek in 1869 that impounded the 9 million US gallons (34,000 m 3) Laurel Run reservoir No. 1.
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 .
The Johnstown flood of 1936, also collectively with other areas referred to as the Saint Patrick's Day Flood, was a devastating flood in Cambria County, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania proper, referred to as "Greater Johnstown". The flood was preceded by heavy rains beginning March 9, 1936, which did not stop until March 22.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania.. 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).