Amanda Malott’s son Andre "AJ" Edwards Jr. was 14 when he went down to play near the Silver Creek dam with some friends last year. A large billboard loomed over the creek where the boys were headed, ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT)—Low-head dams are structures designed to control the water on rivers and streams. However, these dams kill hundreds of people in the U.S. each year. With Labor Day weekend ...
SCOTT COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - At the beginning of the year, WKYT first told you about plans to remove the low-head dam at Great Crossing Park in Scott County. This announcement was met with backlash from ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - New action from Congress could save lives across the country - finally adding potentially deadly low head dams into a national inventory that warns the public. Those dams can ...
In Indiana, there are 1,588 dams, according to data compiled by the Hearst National Investigative Unit. And some of those dams are what's called low-head dams. Sign up for our Newsletters If you're ...
ARRESTED FOR THAT SHOOTING IN THE PAST WEEK. LOW HEAD DAMS ARE REFERRED TO AS DROWNING MACHINES, AND ACCORDING TO THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, THERE ARE MORE THAN 100 OF THESE TYPES OF ...