The National Park Service honored those who lost their lives in the 1889 Johnstown Flood this weekend as the Johnstown Flood ...

The Johnstown Flood killed 2,200 people and changed America’s approach to disaster relief, dam safety, and public accountability.

The small headline of the Engineering News article shown here belies the gravity of the disaster: the deadliest dam failure in U.S. history. The South Fork Dam in Pennsylvania was a 72-ft-tall, 931-ft ...

Gov. Abigail Spanberger has declared May 31 as Dam Safety Awareness Day in Virginia to highlight the importance of proper ...

Photos by George Kollar/Courtesy Johnstown Area Heritage Association / Vehicles are piled along the river banks in the West End of town. JOHNSTOWN — Forty years ago this week, a storm described as a ...

After the Johnstown flood, residents and outside volunteers mounted a massive reconstruction. On May 31, 1889 the South Fork dam in Cambria County failed, sending a flood wave through Johnstown that ...