TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – The Tallahassee Region Environmental Group (TREG) is warning that a dam in Tallahassee’s Canopy Neighborhood remains at risk of flooding, and that one of the possible causes of the Miccosukee Greenway flooding of 2024 hasn’t been fixed.
According to the National Inventory of Dams, the Dove Pond Dam remains a “high-hazard potential dam.” That means “those where failure or mis-operation will probably cause loss of human life.”
According to Terry Ryan, the president of TREG, a report prepared by Leon County shows the dam either failed in 2024 because of valve failures or “seepage” through the dam. That report, however, notes that “step one” would be to check the valves to see if they malfunctioned, or, in Ryan’s view, were potentially left open by accident…