Residents allowed to return home after Wisconsin dam breach led to evacuation
Intense flooding breached a dam in eastern Wisconsin on Friday and eroded the land around it, prompting officials to temporarily evacuate residents who live downstream.
Intense flooding breached a dam in eastern Wisconsin on Friday and eroded the land around it, prompting officials to temporarily evacuate residents who live downstream.
Manawa Police Chief Jason Severson said on Facebook Friday evening that the situation at the Manawa Dam, along the Little Wolf River, has "stabilized."
The city of Manawa received about 4 inches of heavy rain and flash flooding Friday morning, and soon after there were reports of impassable roads and stranded residents, Severson said.
Once first responders noticed the land around the dam eroding, they began evacuating those downstream, police said. It wasn’t clear how many people in the city of about 1,200 were evacuated.
The city said residents could start returning home at 5 p.m.
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