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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 ...
At least five deaths have been recorded in Bucks County at low head dams. Sen. Frank Farry says it's time to dynamite them.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Low-head dams are an outdated source of providing power and dangerous for boaters and people swimming in our waterways. These dams are the reason behind several rescues ...
The man jumped into the water to help a boater who had become trapped in the powerful, washing machine-like waters at the ...
Three years before the death of Alec Campbell, a park ranger, Jonathan Gentile lost his life to a dam. Can these accidents be ...
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the 54-year-old victim, of Neosho, jumped into the Elk River above the dam July 20 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 ...
The Iowa Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit against city, county, and state officials over the drowning deaths of a mother and daughter who went over a low-head dam in Clermont.