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The silent failure of America's aging dams

America's dams are currently averaging 64 years old, and most of us don't give them a second thought until something goes ...
Over several days, what had been a low-key fishing hole in a far-flung corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula disappeared. After heavy rains last June, the wooden stoplogs on a dam that held back the ...
North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality inspection reports point to past problems at a dam that failed during Tropical Storm Chantal, flooding three downstream homes, and nearly claiming ...
LANSING, MI – The Michigan Court of Claims has denied the state’s motion for summary disposition, allowing a lawsuit over the 2020 Edenville Dam failure to proceed to trial in January. The case ...
FILE PHOTO -- Aerial view of the Tittabawassee River after it breached a nearby dam on May 20, 2020 in Sanford, Michigan. Thousands of residents have been ordered to evacuate after two dams in Sanford ...