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The original timber dam dates from 1884 and was put into operation in 1886. The Pine River Dam is located 18 river miles above the junction of the Pine and Mississippi rivers. Pine River was the ...
The plan is to carefully dismantle the timber dam over summer 2015, a project that will cost around $40,000. The demolition will largely be funded by the Department of Fish and Game through Clean ...
A breach in an emergency spillway on the nation's largest dam has prompted more than 100,000 northern California residents to flee their homes -- could it happen in Massachusetts?
Contractors are helping the owner of the Loblolly Timber Dam pump water. The dam, just north of the city of Chester, was cited in a DHEC “emergency order” as needing repairs last month.
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — Schools and businesses were closed for a second day and thousands of residents still couldn't go home Wednesday as a weakened timber dam threatened to give way and spill a ...
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The original timber dam was severely damaged by the deadly 1913 flood. It was rebuilt with concrete/stone aggregate. According to some accounts, structure was added to the top to impound more water.
It replaced a timber dam that was built to power a paper mill before the Civil War and which succeeded earlier dams, said George Howard, CEO of of Restoration Systems, the Raleigh company that is ...