In Michigan, 100K live downstream of old, decrepit dams. ‘We’re at their mercy’

Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on his door, warning the nearby Labarge Dam may fail and send a wall of water his way. Hundreds of yards of trucked-in sand prevented disaster that 2018 night at the high-hazard dam...

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