This is deemed a dam failure. The Manawa police department released a press release, saying the land near the dam was eroding ...

The mayor of Manawa, Mike Frazier, says they requested funds in the state budget to help cover costs to build a new dam.

The state experienced 34 dam failures between 2000 and 2023, more than almost any other U.S. state, a report last year from the Wisconsin Policy Forum found.

MANAWA (NBC 26) — Months after the partial failure of the Manawa Dam, restoration efforts are now under way. However, dam reconstruction isn’t happening just yet.

Restoration work has started at the Manawa Dam after flooding caused its partial collapse & failure on July 5, 2024. Photo taken February 28, 2025. (David Duchan/WLUK) ...

Manawa has received a $450,000 USDA grant to fix the watersheds along the Little Wolf River by Sturm Memorial Library and the local Kobussen depot. They're also looking at designs for a new dam.

Manawa city officials met with State Senator Rachael Cabral-Guevara and State Representative Kevin Peterson to discuss the replacement of its dam as well as possible opportunities for funding.

A recent dam failure in the central Wisconsin city of Manawa, raised broader questions about the condition of the more than 4,000 dams across the state, spread across all of its 72 counties. They ...

Dam classification More than 1,000 of Wisconsin’s dams are listed on the Army Corps’ National Inventory of Dams (NID). The report notes that these dams vary “considerably” in their size and purpose, ...

From 2000 to 2023, there were 34 dam failures from the state’s 4,000 dams over 72 counties, ranking Wisconsin second highest in the nation in dam breaches behind South Carolina, according to a new ...

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin has seen 18 dam breaches since 2018, including one earlier this year where a dam in Manawa was breached and a state of emergency was declared by Gov. Tony Evers ...