Residents evacuated in Nashville, Illinois, after dam fails CHICAGO (AP) -- Hundreds of people in a southern Illinois town were ordered to evacuate Tuesday as water rolled over the top of a dam ...

The dam was owned and operated by Northern States Power Company until 1970 when it offered the dam and surrounding 750 acres to Blue Earth County "as an environmental corridor of wildlife habitats ...

On July 26, 2022, a secondary dam on the city reservoir was breached after over four inches of rain fell near Nashville in less than 12 hours, causing a 6-foot breach and flooding nearly 40 acres ...

The Arkabutla Dam, which is about 11,500 feet long and 67 feet high, was constructed in the 1940s following a series of disastrous floods. These included the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, one ...

Oklahoma City's Overholser Dam is among the nearly 3,000 U.S. dams USA TODAY identified that are in areas that get more frequent storms than in the past, are listed in poor or unsatisfactory ...

Why is the Nova Kakhovka dam significant? The dam is 30 meters (98 ft.) in height and 3.2km (2 mi.) in width, containing a reservoir of around 18 cubic kilometers (4.3 cubic mi.) of water, about ...

In the case of the Iron Gate Dam, Willis pointed out the green growth floating on the stagnant reservoir’s surface: toxic algae in what is supposed to be a water supply source.

Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed. Residents of southern Ukraine, some who spent the night on rooftops, braced for a ...