Malott hopes her suit will help provide accountability and raise awareness around low-head dams, which Ken Smith, DNR’s assistant director of the Division of Water, called “drowning machines ...

TWRA said there’s been six boating deaths since 2010 due to low-head dams. This includes one in 2012 on the Clinch River, in 2014 at Calfkiller River, 2018 at the Sequatchie River, 2020 at ...

Malott hopes her suit will help provide accountability and raise awareness around low-head dams, which Ken Smith, DNR’s assistant director of the Division of Water, called “drowning machines ...

Its report concluded, “In the U.S., more people have drowned at low-head dams in the last 50 years than from all the large dam failures during the same time period.” ...

The man jumped into the water to help a boater who had become trapped in the powerful, washing machine-like waters at the ...

From 2021: From 'drowning machines' to whitewater attractions: How Iowa's fixing dangerous low-head dams Attorney Russ Hixson, representing the plaintiffs, said the court's decision was the right one.

Two men, Alec Campbell and Jonathan Gentile, both 38-year-old fathers and husbands, drowned in separate incidents involving dams in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Approximately 100 deaths in ...

An Iowa Supreme Court ruling will allow a lawsuit, filed the family of a Fayette County mother and daughter who drowned while tubing after going over a low-head dam near Clermont in June 2020, to ...

A kayaker drowned Friday while trying to ride across a low-head dam on the Nodaway River in southwest Iowa. Jerrimiah Bryant Smiley, 38, of Maryville, Missouri, drowned when he was pitched off his ...

There are 369 low head dams in Connecticut, according to the largest existing formal catalog of low head dams across the nation that was reviewed by our national investigative team.