2020 Midland, MI Flooding
Event Date :
05-19-2020
Location :
Midland County, MI
Report Date :
08-05-2020
Event Category:
Flood
Report Number:
GEER-067
DOI:
doi.org/10.18118/G6X67P
Event Latitude:
43.6245813
Event Longitude:
-84.3062428
Team:
| Elliot Nichols |
| Joe Smith |
Contributors:
David Frost
Summary:
On the afternoon of Tuesday May 19, 2020 following two days of heavy rainfall, two embankment dams on the Tittabawassee River in Midland County, Michigan failed. The fifty four foot high Edenville dam was breached and the downstream thirty six foot high Sanford dam was subsequently overtopped. The water level in the river at the Midland monitoring location reached a record high of thirty five feet, compared to a ‘Major Flood’ threshold of twenty eight feet . In response to the dam failures approximately 10,000 people were evacuated, and the resulting flooding caused significant damage to infrastructure and property including the destruction of bridges and buildings. The Village of Sanford, immediately downstream of the Sanford dam, was particularly affected.
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| File Title | File Version | File Date | File Type |
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| Midland Interim Report | 1 | 08-05-2020 |
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