Gadsden, AL Black Creek Low Head Dam

[@joelmabrey2569]

That's Big Wills Creek on Pump Station road. The old pump house was uses to pump water to the Steel Mill about a mile away

[@kayagrace2482]

The dam is gone now. They removed it because several people died there. Low head dams are very dangerous and often called drowning machines. The building is still there, though, and is very creepy looking.

[@oogyboogytom5677]

Holy shit! the boil streches out sooo far!

[@Landgraf43]

I've seen one where the boil streched out at least 3 times that of this dam.. absolute deathtrap

[@georgeman4716]

The dam is actually on Big Wills Creek.

[@user-tb2jy9lu3d]

If they don't want to pay the million or two to have it removed, they need to pay to have some large boulders dropped at the base of the dam to interrupt the recirculating current and it won't do that anymore. Making it a stepped dam would also be quite expensive. If the construction companies weren't so greedy, it shouldn't cost that much to even remove it. Oftentimes it's just one or two dump trucks with a driver working all day, someone working all day on one or two machines fitted with chisels and someone working all day on a machine with a scooping attachment to pick up the big pieces of the dam. Or they could just chisel the dam to pieces, use equipment to pull the big pieces into the lower side of the dam plunge pool and leave them there in lieu of boulders.

[@HumbleTumbleweed001]

They do say death is beautiful.

[@dak8840]

Where are some more backwater places in Gadsden to catch flathead catfish?

[@jesser5127]

2:40 Very moronic to sit on the wall like that. Fall into the water and get sucked in...

[@jackkilgo7788]

Several people have died there

[@aztecworrior79]

Creepy clown 🤡 music