In honor of National Dam Safety Awareness Day, 2018, the City of Lansing's Office of Emergency Management will join with the Association of State Dam Safety Organizations to emphasize the danger of low head dams.
The Office of Emergency Management and ASDSO will be demonstrating the danger of low head dams by letting a canoe float into the boil of the North Lansing dam on the Grand River in Lansing's Old Town.
The demonstration will take place at the Brenke Fish Ladder and Sculpture next to the North Lansing Dam at 1 p.m. Thursday.
The 17-foot aluminum canoe will be launched from BWL's dam catwalk just above the dam. Crews will have two 100-foot lines tethered to the boat in hopes it can be retrieved if all goes according to plan.
