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The dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. [3] With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, [4] the flood killed 2,208 people [5] and accounted for US$17,000,000 (equivalent to about $580,000,000 in 2023) in damage.
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 ...
Dam failures are comparatively rare, but can cause immense damage and loss of life when they occur. In 1975 the failure of the Banqiao Reservoir Dam and other dams in Henan Province, China caused more casualties than any other dam failure in history. The disaster killed an estimated 171,000 people [3] and 11 million people lost their homes.
Derna is prone to flooding, and its dam reservoirs have caused at least five deadly floods since 1942, the latest of which was in 2011, according to a research paper published by Libya’s Sebha ...
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, 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. The dam failed in the early morning of July 20 after period of heavy rain ...
1913 flood. Broken earthen levee, March 26, 1913. A streetcar found on Greenlawn Avenue, a mile from its tracks. The West Side Spiritualist Church among damaged houses. From March 24 to 27, 1913, Columbus was hit with its worst flood. The flood killed at least 93 in Columbus, and stranded dozens more in their homes.
September 27, 2024 at 5:35 PM. (This report has been updated with new information.) Officials in Cocke County urged all of downtown Newport to evacuate immediately just after 3 p.m. Sept. 27 ...