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 ...

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 (WVLT) - Low-head dams are an outdated source of providing power and dangerous for boaters and people swimming in our waterways.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 ...

But few may realize that the Weir dam, one of the state's hundreds of low-head dams, is a killer if you go over. Low-head dams on the Neshaminy are 'drowning machines' The Neshaminy has four low ...

A relic of a bygone age, low-head dams are still threatening to kill Oregonians who venture into waterways. There is an ongoing effort to get rid of them.

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 ...

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.