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Susie C. Spear Low-head dams, such as the 8-foot-high structure at Duke Energy’s Dan River Steam Station, are a threat to public safety, claiming nearly 50 lives nationwide each year, say civil engineers and dam safety advocates. Their aim: to educate the public about the hazards of low-head dams and convince dam owners to rehabilitate the structures. On June 16, nine members of an Eden family set out on the Dan River in tubes for a two-hour float that turned deadly when the group went over the Duke Energy dam. Four survived, and rescue teams worked for five days to recover t...

WOODY MARSHALL photos, NEWS & RECORD  Ruben Villano is embraced at the prayer vigil for victims of the June 16 Dan River tubing accident in Eden. Villano was in the group of nine tubers floating down the river that went over a dam. Four people, including Villano, were rescued from the water the next day. Four bodies were recovered and one person remains missing. WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD  Elias Meadows, 4, holds a candle at the prayer vigil Saturday for the victims of the June 16 Dan River tubing accident in Eden. WOODY MARSHALL, NEWS & RECORD  Greensboro News & Record Angelica Villano...