Why Did Johnstown Happen

This paper informed you about the fateful journey and ultimate demise of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It is an intriguing part of Michigan and Canadian history. Next time you visit the Upper Peninsula and see Lake Superior you will have the thought of the Edmund Fitzgerald jog your

Patoka Lake has not always been the exciting, enjoyable weekend get-away as many have remembered it. In the early 1960s, two communities surrounding the lake - Jasper and Dubois - would have suffered tremendously from the reoccurring flooding. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as well as the state of Indiana worked together through the Flood Control Act to create the reservoir, thus inventing the wonderful recreational area that surrounds Patoka Lake.

However, the dams were of faulty construction. Dam number one which caused the flooding was constructed of coarse mining refuse that Pittston had dumped into the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek starting in 1968. This dam failed first on the heels of heavy rains. The water from Dam number three then took out dams number two and then number one. Dam number three had simply

At 7:45 AM, as the men were doing repair work, water started to flow down the valley. Multiple lives could potentially have been saved if residents of the Buffalo Hallow were informed of the potential disaster and magnitude of its occurrence. The Pittston Coal Company ignored warnings from all major government departments like the mining bureau, the National Guard, the State Police, and even the local sheriff’s office. At 7:59 AM, the dam officially collapsed and lead to major blasts as boiling yellow suffer coal deposits came in contact with rushing water from the stream. At 8:01 AM, a huge outburst of 130 million gallons of water stream swept away the whole Buffalo Creek and drifted along all the coal manufacturing waste with it. This tragedy claimed 123 lives, injured 1000 and also left 4000 people homeless. Alongside these statistics, the disaster left countless scars on the survivors and the citizens of West Virginia. In an attempt to absolve The Pittson Coal Company from any legal responsibility, company officials insisted the flood was “an act of God”. They argued that there absolutely nothing with the dam expect that it

|collapsed in the Buffalo Creek Valley. Over 130 million gallons of water and waste material devastated Buffalo Creek's sixteen |

Germantown Ohio was one of the four original townships in Montgomery County when Ohio became a state.Philip Gunkel was my sixth great uncle. He founded a town in Ohio named GermanTown. Philip Gunkel came to Pennsylvania in 1804, with a group of German settlers. There were twenty families, with Philip being the leader, and him being the only one who was able to speak English in the group. He and the other settlers traveled to Ohio, and founded their town named GermanTown.He chose a sight for a “gristmill”, or a mill that grinds dust. They set up a sight for the gristmill and the town layout. This was set up in 1814 and is still the heart of the municipality or“A city or town that has corporate status and local government.” Germantown has undergone

JOHNSON CITY (WENY) - Clean up crews continue to pull cars and rubble from what use to be a two story hospital parking garage, in Johnson City, after it collapsed Thursday afternoon.

A river of mud traveled down the mountain, caused by melted snow and released groundwater, destroying about two hundred houses, and ruined the beautiful lakes and creeks in the area.

During the summer of 1926, heavy rains were beginning to swell to extraordinary levels in the basin of the Mississippi river. Also contributing to the swelling of the Mississippi River, was snow melting in Canada during the spring of 1927. The waters did not lessen until the following year. The flooding took place on the lower area of the Mississippi River valley during April 1927. During that month, the levee at Mounds landing in Mississippi was breached, from this point on the entire levee system among the river weakened and gave way to the huge volumes of water. The Mississippi River suffered thirteen levee breaks, “…there were twenty-six breaks on the Arkansas River, sixty-seven on the White River, and twelve on the St. Francis” (Whayne 312).

A large part of Pittsburgh’s history has been along the accordance of industry, particularly steel. Playing a major role in World

Emergency foundation repair, in the form of rock riprap and cement grout, was performed to safeguard the structure from a potential total failure. The foundation under approximately fifty per cent of the structure was drastically and irrevocably changed.” The structure had been built to function with a maximum difference of thirty-seven feet between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya sides. That maximum now had to be lowered to twenty-two feet—a diminution that brought forth the humor in the phrase “Old River Control. “Robert Fairless, a New Orleans District engineer who has long been a part of the Old River story, once told me that “things were touch and go for some months in 1973” and the situation was precarious still. “At a head greater than

Flooding was caused by approximately 15 inches of rainfall over the span of a week

The aftermath of battles lost. The ground was covered in mud and shattered glass, pieces of broken concrete, twisted steel and the men, many dead, their bodies half buried, others crawling or being pulled out of the mud, from under the he debris, or like him stumbling from behind cranes and forklifts, dazed and disorientated, making their way, not away, but back towards the bridge, towards the wreck. The slab, cracked and broken, everything in its way ground to ash and powder finally stopped falling. Like a beached battle ship, all power and momentum lost, it was now sinking into the river. But there were several fires, their angry red flames blocking the path to the slab to the men buried underneath it and other men as dazed as him staring at the

When you take a Dells Boat Tour, you are taking a trip back in time as the guides tell tales of the Upper Dells. 14,000 years ago a large ice lake gave away, allowing the glacial waters of Wisconsin to flood through the area, cutting out gorges and leaving behind cliffs. These gorges formed the Narrows, treacherous areas where the Wisconsin River narrowed to only 52 feet and the water was so shallow it formed deadly rapids and swirling whirlpools where a man could drown if he got pulled under. In the mid-1800s, lumberjacks floated logs on rafts down the river every spring on to sawmills north of the Dells. Several men lost their lives along the way. By the end of the 19th century, the railroad replaced rafts for transporting logs to these sawmills. When the first permanent dam, built in 1909, it raised the

Phase I will comprise of detailed field and topographic survey to identify all the streams and storm water/drainage system with associated problems and issues such as encroachment/Property Affected Persons (PAPs), siltation, design deficiencies, inadequate capacity, etc., from Allentown to Hamilton with a view towards solving the flooding problems affecting roads and property in the Freetown Municipality. A base map showing all the features and the seasonal flood areas will be produced. Recommendations for restoration/improvement and management of the system with indicative costs will be provided during this first phase reporting.