🌿 Environment 10h ago · Vivian La

Close calls at Michigan’s dams are a climate warning to America

Grist
Environmental news nonprofit
View Channel →
Close calls at Michigan’s dams are a climate warning to America
Source ↗ 👁 0 💬 0
Flooding across northern Michigan last month pushed rivers to record levels, testing the limits of the state’s aging dams so severely that officials in one city nearly ordered evacuations as water threatened to spill over the top of a key barrier — a close call that highlights the growing risk that intensifying storms pose to similar infrastructure around the country.



Nationwide, the average dam is 64 years old and most were built for rainfall patterns that no longer reflect today’s changing

Comments (0)

Sign in to join the discussion

More Like This

Enviros say Supreme Court decision boosts states' ‘climate superfunds’
EHN · 8h ago
Mardi Gras trash hits record high in New Orleans
EHN · 8h ago
52 dead sloths: Inside Sloth World
Conservation news · 8h ago
Shark or sea monster? The Canadian marine mystery that still intrigues experts 90 years on
Environment | The Guardian · 8h ago
I went to Cuba when Trump turned the lights out
EHN · 8h ago
Sweeping California law on single-use plastic meets with outrage from all sides as it goes live
EHN · 8h ago