FILE - This combination of file photos provided by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, shows the Spencer Dam near Spencer, Neb., in November 2013, top, when it was holding back water on ...

Officials with the Nebraska Public Power District, which operates Spencer Dam as a hydropower facility, said that while four deficiencies were noted in the 2018 inspection, most were minor and all ...

In the aftermath of the dam failure, the Mormon Canal bridge over the Niobrara River on Nebraska Highway 12 at Niobrara is washed away, and the approach to a bridge on U.S. Highway 281 in Spencer ...

The fate of a dam in northeast Nebraska Destroyed in 2019′s historic flooding has been decided. Millions in FEMA funds will be used to tear down the remains of Spencer Dam and it will not be ...

A Nebraska dam that collapsed under pressure from an icy flood had a history of unaddressed ice problems and had no formal emergency plan because regulators wrongly assumed that no one would die ...