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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 ...
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 ...
A surge of raging water caused at least $200 million in damage as it also took out the Sanford Dam, crashed into the M-30 bridge, and forced roughly 10,000 people in Midland and Gladwin counties ...
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.
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 ...
Wixom Lake was a reservoir in the U.S. state of Michigan from 1925 to 2020. [1] It was named after Frank Wixom, who was instrumental in building the Edenville Dam. [2] Unusual for its size, Wixom Lake boasts a lighthouse on Musselman Island.