{"id":4728,"date":"2011-09-01T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2011-09-01T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T19:44:00","slug":"two-major-backountry-dams-in-adirondacks-have-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/01\/two-major-backountry-dams-in-adirondacks-have-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Two major backountry dams in Adirondacks have failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4730\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/09\/01\/two-major-backountry-dams-in-adirondacks-have-failed\/duck-hole-phil-brown\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4730\" title=\"Phil Brown's photo of the Duck Hole dam\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/duck-hole-phil-brown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/duck-hole-phil-brown.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/09\/duck-hole-phil-brown-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>NCPR has learned that two major dams in the Adirondack backcountry have failed, following tropical storm Irene.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Woodworth at the Adirondack Mountain Club and David Winchell, NYSDEC, confirmed that the Duck Hole dam has lost roughly a third of its span and the pond there has been largely dewatered.<\/p>\n<p>The Marcy Dam structure also appears to have failed, though the entire wooden span still appears to be in place.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unclear how the pond there is draining, but much of the water has now escaped leaving muddy piles of sediment.<\/p>\n<p>Both ponds have long been popular traditional destinations for hikers exploring the Adirondacks.\u00a0 No word yet on what efforts might be made to restore the structures.<\/p>\n<p>The High Peaks, Giant, and Dix Wilderness areas remain closed.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/adirondackexplorer.org\/out-takes\/2011\/09\/01\/first-photos-of-duck-hole\/\">Read Phil Brown&#8217;s blog post about hiking in to Duck Hole here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour, NCPR will report on the widespread devastation in the Adirondack backcountry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCPR has learned that two major dams in the Adirondack backcountry have failed, following tropical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6523],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}