{"id":373297,"date":"2026-08-17T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373297\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:00:16","slug":"miami-conservancy-district-dams-active-to-protect-9-counties-from-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373297\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Conservancy District dams active to protect 9 counties from flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">DAYTON \u2014 Several dams in the Miami Valley were activated after record-setting rain this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">News Center 7\u2019s Kylie Bridgeman is following this story; she will have the latest LIVE on News Center 7 at 6 and 11. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">In the Miami Valley, there\u2019s a system keeping nine counties safe from flooding. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Miami Conservancy District formed after the Great Flood of 1913. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">&gt;&gt; RELATED:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/local\/4-dams-storing-floodwater-after-recent-rainfall-across-miami-valley\/GYCV64IIYBHPNDHICFU6ZMZJDA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/local\/4-dams-storing-floodwater-after-recent-rainfall-across-miami-valley\/GYCV64IIYBHPNDHICFU6ZMZJDA\/\"> 4 dams storing floodwater after recent rainfall across Miami Valley<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Sarah Hippensteel Hall with MCD said the network has saved the Miami Valley from flooding more than 2,000 times. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u201cThe benefits are more than just your water not going to touch your house. It\u2019s your roadways that you take to work, or you take to Dayton Children\u2019s Hospital. The bridges are still functioning,\u201d Hippensteel Hall said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">At least four of the five dams have stored flood water this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">This story will be updated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON \u2014 Several dams in the Miami Valley were activated after record-setting rain this week. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74311,150735,2927,123,146199,125,124,150734],"class_list":["post-373297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-dam","tag-flood-waters","tag-flooding","tag-miami","tag-miami-conservancy-district","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sarah-hippensteel-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}