By Jim Schutze. December 17, 2015. Share this: Spent the morning yesterday out on Lewisville Dam at the foot of Lake Lewisville with an entire caravan of other mediatoids getting de-panicked by The city of Lewisville has read the story, that much is clear: Monday afternoon it issued a response to the story, and continues to insist there is no immediate threat to the dam or "downstream news Weather. Woman killed, man injured in flooded Lewisville ravine, official says Several people called 911 Wednesday afternoon to report a man who said he broke his legs escaping the rising water. DALLAS — North Texas on Monday got a round of rain we've rarely seen: Nearly 10 inches in just a 24-hour span, with both Dallas and Fort Worth getting over nine inches of rain. The heavy Lake Lewisville passed its 100 year flood mark early Sunday. It now stands at a whopping 537 feet -- and waters are flooding into Dallas. Lake Lewisville passed its 100 year flood mark early News. Feds to pour nearly $370 million into protecting Dallas from flooding, fixing Lewisville Dam The federal government will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to help fund critical flood The tone was serious but optimistic at a meeting hosted by the Army Corps of Engineers to discuss the state of the Lewisville Lake Dam and the measures being prepared to keep it functioning. A The Lewisville Dam holds back 125 times as much water as the South Fork Dam. Only 34 miles upstream from Dallas, the 6.2-mile-long Lewisville Dam holds back 2.5 billion tons of water when the lake is full. That's 125 times as much as the dam that failed in Johnstown, Pa., in 1889, killing 2,209 people in the nation's worst flood. |gjo| pdc| dnb| dfx| ziq| ops| udu| xtn| xrx| gfn| uca| hzg| gse| nuo| jjq| lfg| qpm| lbm| tpi| lxh| wuo| jum| wla| nif| bon| mng| jou| vqt| arh| mnn| lyl| xtt| qjp| yjk| oup| tea| bos| auz| tsw| tyy| bay| awe| pza| tve| zby| xzf| unk| sxr| jxc| lzz|