The Laurel Run Dam, also known as Laurel Run Dam No. 2, was an earthen embankment dam that failed during the Johnstown Flood of 1977. It had the largest...

stalled over the region, and six dams in the area over-topped and failed. The largest dam to fail was the Laurel Run Dam, releasing over 101 million U.S...

Authority of the Borough of Lewistown Laurel Run Dam, Laurel Run Reservoir, Johnstown Water Authority (failed) Letterkenny Dam, Letterkenny Reservoir on the Conodoguinet...

A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water...

18 May 2018. Luino, Fabio; Tosatti, Giovanni; Bonaria, Vittorio (2014). "Dam Failures in the 20th Century: Nearly 1,000 Avoidable Victims in Italy Alone"...

mine drainage. A reservoir known as the Laurel Run Reservoir is in the watershed and is dammed by the Cawley Dam. Waterfalls, ravines, ledges, and slides...

the Laurel Forge breached. In 1919, the Laurel Dam breached and washed out the Hunters Run and Slate Belt branch and breached the Upper Mill dam at Mount...

$200 million in property damage, and 78 people died. Forty were killed by the Laurel Run Dam failure. Another 50,000 were rendered homeless as a result of this "100-year...

seven dams killed 84 people in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania after a rainfall of 12 inches (300 mm) in 24 hours. At 2:35 in the morning, the Laurel Run Dam...

watershed flowing to Chesapeake Bay. Parker Dam in Parker Dam State Park creates 20-acre (8.1 ha) Parker Lake. Laurel Run continues for 8.3 miles (13.4 km) to...