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Delhi Dam, also known as Hartwick Dam, is an embankment dam on the Maquoketa River 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) southwest of Delhi, Iowa that created Lake Delhi. The dam was over-topped and subsequently failed on July 24, 2010 after a period of heavy rain. It was rebuilt in 2016. The dam and lake are part of the Turtle Creek Recreation Area, and is ...
The following is a list of events of the year 2010 in Iowa. Incumbents. State government ... Heavy rains caused the Lake Delhi Dam to fail with damage exceeding 1 ...
Delhi Dam: 2010-07-24 Iowa: United States 0 Heavy rain, flooding, malfunctioning spillway and structural problems. Around 8,000 people had to be evacuated. Replacement uncertain due to lake-dredging debt. Niedow Dam: 2010-08-07 Lower Silesian Voivodeship: Poland 1 Heavy rain, over-topped from flooding. [28] Ajka alumina plant accident: 2010-10 ...
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history ... workers carved channels to breach the remaining cofferdams at the last two sites, allowing water to flow freely along more than 40 miles of the ...
There are four small dams on the river: Delhi Dam (the USGS terms it, Hartwick Dam) impounds 400-acre (1.6 km 2) Lake Delhi downriver from Manchester in Delaware County. [7] [8] On Saturday July 24, 2010, the dam at Lake Delhi failed due to heavy rains and the rapid rise of the Maquoketa River. [9]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake overflowed and burst through a dam in India's ...
Parts of north-west Delhi were flooded on Thursday after a breach in a canal that supplies water from a nearby state, and repair work was being carried out to minimize the impact, a senior local ...
The Delhi Dam on the river in Delhi's southwest created Hartwick Lake. A portion of the dam failed on July 24, 2010, flooding areas downstream. [6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.02 square miles (2.64 km 2), of which 0.97 square miles (2.51 km 2) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km 2) is water ...