A spill gate’s failure led to a virtual draining of the lake Tuesday. 8」水庫潰壩) was the collapse of 62 dams including the largest Banqiao Dam in Henan, China due to Typhoon Nina of 1975. The flow of water is increased as the Army Corps of Engineers continues to release water from Canyon Lake.

By Monday evening, when Hurricane Matthew had moved north and out to sea, a middle section of the spillway at Woodlake Dam had collapsed. As residents of Michigan’s Midland county scramble to recover from devastating floods, a video has emerged showing the critical moment when Eden dam collapsed, in a failure experts are attributing to shoddy maintenance and climate change.
Thousands of residents downstream were in danger. Shocking footage shows the moment a Michigan dam burst last week, draining an entire lake as flood waters left behind a trail of devastation for thousands of residents. Lake Wood residents still waiting three years after dam failure They gathered along the banks of what used to be Lake Wood and talked. The dam failure was the second catastrophic failure of a dam spill gate in the GBRA in the past three years.
Friends of Lake Wood members Dale Schellenberg and Joe Solansky look at the Lake Wood Dam spill gate that failed three years ago.

Over one weekend last October, more than a half-foot of rain fell on the small town of Vass in Moore County. The pond area is 488 acres with a storage capacity of 4,000 acre-feet. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Federal documents show a Kent County dam that officials warned could fail in 2018 has yet to receive significant upgrades. Lake Wood Recreation Area is located on the shores of Lake Wood, a hydroelectric lake owned and operated by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority to impound water needed to generate electricity. Photo taken Monday, May 20, 2019 at Lake Wood, just west of Gonzales. A group of neighbors, property owners, friends and elected officials looked out into the forest that sprouted up in the three years since a spill gate failure drained the lake, leaving only the river channel. 1 of 7 Water spills from the dam at Lake Dunlap on Wednesday. Rushing water flows over the spill gates of Lake Wood Dam on Monday, May 20, 2019 at Lake Wood, just east of Gonzales. In 2016, the spill gate at dam number five, or Lake Wood, collapsed and emptied the lake behind it. Photo: Billy Calzada /Staff photographer With the spill gate failure at the dam at Lake Dunlap on May 14, the community hopes it will be what it takes to move forward with improvements on Lake Wood dam. Felicia Frazar - The Seguin Gazette “We have renewed hope that their tragedy and catastrophe will reignite public interest in finding solutions and securing funding to repair both dams," Anderson said.