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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.
Date of Incident: July 20, 1977. Evacuation: No. Fatalities: 40. Property Damage: $5.3 million. Description & Background. Constructed between 1915 and 1918, Laurel Run Dam was an earthfill dam with a masonry spillway erected across Laurel Run near Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
A major flood that killed 84 people and caused $340 million in damage in Pennsylvania, United States, when six dams failed due to heavy rainfall. Learn about the history, response, and aftermath of the flood that devastated Johnstown and the Conemaugh Valley.
approximately 2:15 a.m. on July 20,1977, overtopping of Laurel Run Dam scoured the downstream slope of the dam enough to cause the embankment to breach resulting in complete failure of the dam. At the time of the failure, there was no one present at the dam site.
An earthen water supply dam collapsed at Laurel Run Reservoir, one of several dams that failed. The waters overflowed the channel system in Johnstown that was to have left the city 'flood-free.'
The removal of Laurel Run Dam No. 2 in Plains Twp. will improve public safety and the ecology of the area around the 137-year-old dam, a state Bureau of Forestry official said Monday.
The failure of the Laurel Run Dam in Johnstown in July 1977 after 11.5 inches of rain was one of several failures in the U.S. that decade that led to the establishment of the National Dam...
LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier could be nearing failure. But it appears the dam will be able to survive the storm. Rutherford County ...
The Lake Lure dam overtopped Friday after Hurricane Helene inundated the area, prompting warnings the dam could fail. Officials later determined failure was not imminent.
LAKE LURE, N.C. — Excessive rain had threatened a dam at Lake Lure, according to the National Weather Service. At 11 a.m. Friday, Lake Lure officials told Rutherford County Emergency Management ...