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South Fork Dam 1889 breach causing the Johnstown flood

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The viewing area here gives a sense of scale to where former Lake Conemaugh was and the extent of the breach of the dam to the northwest.  Stop 1B in Todd.

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South Fork Dam

The South Fork Dam was an earthen work dam on Lake Conemaugh (formerly Western Reservoir, also known as the Old Reservoir and Three Mile Dam, a misnomer), an artificial body of water near South Fork, Pennsylvania, United States. On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam failed catastrophically and 20 million tons of water from Lake Conemaugh burst through and raced 14 miles (23 km) downstream, causing the Johnstown Flood.[2]

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