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Nearly a year ago, flooding at the Rapidan Dam in southern Minnesota destroyed a family’s home and shut down their long-time ...
Marlene Nelson’s home stood less than a mile from the Edenville Dam and was in the direct path of floodwaters that came when the dam failed in May 2020. She lost her home and was forced to use her ...
Nearly 800 people signed a June 10 letter to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that urged her to acknowledge the state's role in the 2020 Edenville Dam failure.
As images of the devastation spread, many have questioned whether some of the flooded homes were built over flood lines.
June 14, 1990, seemed like any other dreary day that week to me. It was a Thursday, and I was living in Fairborn, Ohio, ...
Learn of Connecticut’s “escalating flood threat, and… the question of what each community is doing to protect itself before ...
The head of Gift of the Givers’ search and rescue team, Ahmed Bham, says he has not for a long time seen devastation such as ...
For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...
One of the major water storage projects that is being discussed is the rebuilding of the Teton Dam near Rexburg, Idaho.
Dozens of small communities were submerged by Alabama Power and TVA to create dams to bring electricity to rural areas in the ...
It was 57 years ago this month that President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated J. Percy Priest Dam with four purposes in mind: flood mitigation, electrical power generation, water supply, and ...
Denver Palmer was 22 years old and planning to watch a softball game on June 14, 1990. Instead, he spent the night helping his father and other area residents search the darkness for their neighbors ...