Kohanza Reservoir

Kohanza Reservoir
Kohanza Reservoir disaster, January 31, 1869
Kohanza Reservoir is located in Connecticut
Kohanza Reservoir
Kohanza Reservoir
Location within Connecticut
Interactive map of Kohanza Reservoir
LocationDanbury, Connecticut
TypeReservoir
Basin countriesUnited States
Built1866 (1866)

The Kohanza Reservoir was a reservoir in Danbury, Connecticut. Construction was completed in 1866. It was the first of many reservoirs built to supply Danbury's hat factories. The dam broke on January 31, 1869. The ensuing flood of ice and water killed 11 people in half an hour, and caused major damage to many homes and farms, as well as uprooting trees and moving boulders.

Kohanza Reservoir disaster, January 31, 1869

Present day

The reservoir still exists in two smaller sections:

References

  1. ↑ Alexius Vogel; Jean-Robert Courivaud; Katarzyna Jarecka (2022). "Recent Case Histories of Cascade Failures and Overflowing Events of Embankment Dams". Retrieved 19 July 2025.
  2. ↑ Danbury Museum and Historical Society. "Kohanza Disaster" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2011. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "The Danbury Disaster". The New York Herald. New York. 3 February 1869. p. 4. Retrieved 19 July 2025.