Sabino Dam near Tucson, AZ, Whitlow Dam in Queen Valley, AZ, and Mystery Bridge

Sabino Dam: (Satellite)

Whitlow Dam: (Satellite)

Sabino Dam

Meteorologist Chris Nunley posted
Significant flooding is underway in Arizona! Stranded visitors are being rescued due to flooding. This is Sabino Dam in Sabino Canyon Recreation Area in the Coronado National Forest. Do not attempt to cross washes or canyons.

Larry Gruetzmacher: Where is all this water going?? Anyway to divert it to where it's needed??

Kevin DeFilippo: Larry Gruetzmacher the water goes from the washes to the Rillito river and Santa Cruz river to the Gila river..

[I traced the Gila River. The Colorado River goes into Mexico soon after the Gila River joins it. This is probably downstream of all the USA reservoirs.]

Heather DuVall: Parts of Camp Verde and Cottonwood under 5 feet of water.

James Andrew Mac: Everyone knew this was coming 4 days ago , why were people still allowed there?

Lawrence Walker: Same as Kerr County, Texas, in both 2025 and 2026, where so many people ignored the severe weather forecast.

Scott Wcsm commented on the above post
Close up of same view from a hill above

Whitlow Dam

Joy Nelson posted two photos and a video with the comment:

Eight days apart. Same spot! 🌵

With flash flood warnings all around us, here’s some of the flooding near Queen Valley from the dam.  It’s amazing how quickly the desert can change with significant rain. 

Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature!

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Stella San Miguel: Where is this please?

Dennis DeBruler: Stella San Miguel It looks like the outlet for the Whitlow Dam upstream of Queen Valley, AZ: https://maps.app.goo.gl/uoekLGqSFnBKTdRg6

This looks like a surge basin dam. That is, the reservoir is normally empty and the amount of water that goes down stream to Queen Valley is limited to the capacity of the outlet works. In this view, we see an empty reservoir and the control works house for the outlet works in the background.

John, Oct 2026

They must be confident in their estimate of the needed capacity because it is an earth dam, but I don't see an emergency spillway.

Mystery Bridges, Same Rain Storm from the Pacific

I hope those campers don't need that bridge to get back home. Actually, do they need it to get to higher ground. 

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SEVERE FLOODING | SOUTHWEST COLORADO

This is the force of flooding currently impacting southwest Colorado.

The worst may still be ahead. Rivers across the region continue to rise, with some of the most severe flooding expected late tonight.

Residents are urged to stay away from flooded roads, bridges, and waterways as dangerous conditions continue throughout the region.

Video Credit: Alexis Reed

Google Maps doesn't know about "Hermosa." At  least this bridge needed a lot of debris to help take it out.

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Watson and Upper & Lower Goldwater Dams on Granite Creek near Prescott, AZ

Watson Dam: (Satellite) on Granite Creek

Upper & Lower Goldwater Dams: (Satellite) I could not find a name for the creek that runs through here.

Willow Creek Reservoir: (Satellite) This is fed with a pipe from the Watson Dam.

Nov 1, 2026: It is designed to handle 10' (3m) of over topping. Note how water is blasting out of the outlet conduit, as it should be.

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Latest update from our City Mgr Dallin Kimble as of Sunday 11/1 at 11:30 am below.  The net is please stay home today! Our rescue crews have their hands full and don’t need to rescue you too.

Watson is rising 3" about every 2-3 minutes. The recharge pipeline is open, the 36" valve is open, and the pipe to Willow is open, there is water flowing over the spillway, but there is just too much water coming into the lake. The dam is rated for water to be able to flow up to 10 feet over the top of the dam, but any amount of overage creates structural risk.

SEE NEW VIDEO!! As of 11:30 am:  We're now topping at Watson and Upper Goldwater. There's only about 6 feet of capacity left in Lower Goldwater. It will top as well. We're notifying the affected neighbors downstream.

There are various areas around the city where we may need to close roads, including Willis. LaGuardia Bridge is doing well. The Prescott Lakes Parkway bridge is also holding up.

Beyond our borders, Fain Lake Dam is overflowing in PV. They're also very concerned about Lynx Creek.

Senator Highway has washed out and there are rescue operations underway in Groom Creek.

A fire task force from Phoenix is on its way to help on the Verde side.

Please stay home today Prescott!

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[Fortunately, some comments identified it as Watson Lake.]

1935,1988 8mw El Vado Hydro Dam on Chama, Rio near Tierra Amarilla, NM

(Satellite)

An 8mw hydro power plant went operational in May 1988. [CleanView]

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Because of the 27-year draught, there was plenty of room in the reservoir for the flood waters.

Satellite

I couldn't reconcile the Facebook image with the satellite image until I used Google Earth to find an image of a more full reservoir. Then it became obvious that there is a spillway on the right descending bank and the reel is at the end of that spillway.

Google Earth, Dec 2009

A rather full reservoir.

Google Earth, Dec 2009

The recent reservoir to the same scale.

Satellite

1920 Lost Covered SP and 1940 Main Street Bridges over Calapooia River in Brownsville, OR

1920: (Archived Bridge Hunter link is broke; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

1940: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Lost 1920 Southern Pacific Bridge

Based on the treelines on a satellite map and the maps in Brownsville Depot, I put the location here. BridgeHunter puts it there.

State Library of Oregon, Ben Maxwell Collection via BridgeHunter

1940 Main Street Bridge

Street View, Jul 2021

Doug Chapman posted
Bridge on Main St in Brownsville Oregon over the Calapooia River. Built in 1940. It was also 1986 movie stand by me.

Natalie P, Feb 2024 via Dennis DeBruler

1924-2018+2019 KY-152 Kennedy Mill Bridge over Herrington Lake and 33mw Dix Dam near Burgin, KY

1924 Bridge: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges)

2018 Bridge: (Satellite)

Dam: (Satellite)

Powerhouse: (Satellite)

The deck truss was torn down a year or so before the girder bridge was finished. According to a video, the locals were glad to see it go because DOT kept closing it for repairs. One person said that it should have been replaced a couple of decades ago.

Photo from Harrodsburg Herald via BridgeHunter

Jul 16, 2018:

wkyt
"Demolition underway on Lake Herrington's Kennedy Mill Bridge"
It was in such bad shape that it was torn down piece by piece before the new bridge was done.

The Walsh Group posted
Throwback to October 2017, when we placed Miraculous Medals in the first concrete pour for the new Kennedy Mill Bridge over Herrington Lake in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The project included the replacement of a 93-year-old, 804-foot-long bridge, along with  demolition and removal of the existing structure.

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It looks like a combination of steel and concrete girders, mostly steel.

Street View, Aug 2024

Dix Dam

"Upon completion in 1925, the dam was considered an engineering marvel, Kentucky’s first hydroelectric dam, the world’s largest rock-filled dam and the highest dam east of the Rocky Mountains." [lge-ku]

HerringtonLakeKY

Jushua James Pretzer posted eight photos with the comment: "Dix Dam, Kentucky."

Joshua James Pretzer: Painter now part of E.W. Brown Generating station that they built nearby. I was told that having the hydro plant has allowed the coal fired units to continue operating when similar plants have been shut down. And that the coal side is now used to experiment with new cleaning process to learn how to update aging coal plants.

Of course I don't know if any of that is true I'm just the crane guy. And now that I think of it I think most of the coal units have been down for a while. Only 1 of 3 units seemed to be active when I was there.

Steven Painter: Joshua, What a neat old plant, How many megawatts does this produce? too bad they are shutting down all the coal plants, this will not be good.

Joshua James Pretzer: 33MW

[A Google Maps label says the dam is permanently closed.]

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HerringtonLakeKY_99

pplweb
At 249' (76m) deep, Herrington Lake is the deepest lake in Kentucky.

weku, 1 of 12 photos on this webpage.
The dam is 287' (87.5m) tall with a base of 750' (228.6m).

Google AI says it is 1,087' (331.3m) long. It gave pplweb as the source, but I could not find that fact on that web page. 

1898,1986,2011 Indiana Avenue/Fort Wayne Street (Lincoln Highway(US-30)) Bridge over Elkhart River in Goshen, IN

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Lincoln (US-30) Highway Overview

Street View, Jun 2023

HistoricBridges
"This bridge is a through truss bridge, specifically a Pennsylvania truss bridge. It was built in 1898. This special modification of the Pratt through design features the Parker shape as well as additional members added beyond the Pratt design. This particular bridge features an a top chord that runs horizontal longer than usual, giving the bridge a somewhat unusual appearance. Connections on the bridge are pinned....This bridge was finally officially listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 2005, although it had been considered eligible for years prior to that"

Jennifer Woodman posted seven photos with the comment: "The Fort Wayne Street Bridge in Goshen, Indiana is a Pennsylvania through truss built in 1896 by the Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co. of Ohio. It's 180 ft long and 23 ft wide. The Elkhart River bends here, so the bridge was built diagonally to meet both banks at right angles. The city renamed it the Indiana Avenue Bridge around 1960, but the old name stuck around and it made the National Register of Historic Places in 2005."

Joyce Chambers: Part of the Historic 1913 Lincoln Highway story! So glad it was preserved! Thank you, Goshen!

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Sep 16, 2025, 4721 via Dennis DeBruler

Note how the Lincoln Highway originally went Northwest to Goshen and Elkhart and then went west to South Bend and the lake towns. In Illinois, the highway did another jog north to catch the towns along the Fox River and DeKalb and Rochelle. Today, US-30 has a more direct route between Fort Wayne and Chicagoland and between Chicagoland and Rock Falls. Today's US-33 follows the original Lincoln Highway route between Fort Wayne and Elkhart.

Digitally Zoomed

This is the oldest topo map that I could find, so I can't determine the original route through town that used this bridge. Note that, since this map was made, a road was built along the tracks to take US-33 traffic off of Madison and 3rd Streets.

1959/61 Goshen Quad @ 24,000

NS/NKP Bridge over Huron River north of Milan, OH

(no Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

Big Boy 2026:

MP Rail Photography posted
With jet skiers looking on, NS 061, with the UP Big Boy leading, crosses the Huron River as it heads into Bellevue on the NS Cleveland District.

July 13, 2026

Milan, Ohio

Power

UP 4014 - 4-8-8-4 Steam Locomtive (Big Boy)

UP 1616 - SD70M (The Lincoln)

NS 2026 - SD70ACe (The Lady Liberty)

NS 250 - SD70ACe (The Freedom)

NS 1776 - SD70ACe (The Bell)

UP 1776 - SD70M (America250 Unit)

Comments on the above post

The north/south route is the abandoned Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. At first I was surprised that the routes were not connected since NKP owned both routes since the 1920s. Then I saw the connection a little east of Wikel Road.

1959/60 Milan Quad @ 24,000

That connection still exists because NS still uses the W&LE route to the Huron Docks.

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