Over several days, what had been a low-key fishing hole in a far-flung corner of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula disappeared. After heavy rains last June, the wooden stoplogs on a dam that held back the ...

One small dam has already failed, several others remain damaged or close to overtopping and crews are still stabilizing structures across the state.

Kinneytown Dam in Seymour looks practically idyllic rimmed in two-day-old mid-February snow as the Naugatuck River cascades off its ledges. But this hulk of a structure, however majestically flowing, ...

MORE. THE UPSTATE HAS A BIG PROBLEM AND ITS RIPPLE EFFECTS IMPACT COMMUNITIES MILES DOWNSTREAM. IF THAT DAM WERE TO BREAK, MY GUESS IS THAT FLOW RIGHT OVER THE DAM WOULD BRING MUD, GO RIGHT IN THIS ...