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A modern view of the South Fork Dam. The large gap overlooked by the two wooden terraces pictured is the breach that caused the Johnstown Flood.. The South Fork Dam was an earthenwork dam forming Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), [1] an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States.
The remaining abutment of the South Fork Dam with the US-219 highway bridge downstream in the background. The city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania was founded in 1800 by Swiss immigrant Joseph Johns (anglicized from "Schantz") where the Stonycreek and Little Conemaugh rivers joined to form the Conemaugh River.
The Sandy Run Dam, a 28-foot-high (8.5 m), 63-year-old earthen dam with a spillway owned by the Highland Water and Sewer Authority, released a little more than 18 million US gallons (68,000 m 3) of water when it failed, with its flood waters entering the Conemaugh between St. Michael and South Fork at Ehrenfeld. The Salix Water Dam on Otto Run ...
Friends talk after having canoed the flooded South Fork New River for 32 minutes and landing at a washed out road on September 27, 2024 in Boone, North Carolina.
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.
Dec. 17—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — The reservoir behind North Fork Dam, across the North Fork of Bens Creek, is the primary source of domestic water supply for Greater Johnstown. The 1930s dam also ...
The disaster became widely known as the Johnstown Flood, and locally known as the "Great Flood". Rumors of the dam's potential for harm, and its likelihood of bursting, had been circulating for years. At least three warnings sent from South Fork to Johnstown by telegram the day of the disaster went virtually unheeded downstream.
Two years after the $20 million removal of the Middle Fork Nooksack dam, salmon have safe passage through the river, but none have been seen — so now local tribes and wildlife officials are ...