Federal agency to add warning signs at dams across Pa., after boy dies in ‘drowning machine’
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The Army Corp of Engineers erected four red signs April 1, 2021, exactly one week after a boy drowned at the dam.
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The drowning of an 11-year-old boy at a low head dam in the Codorus Creek on property owned by the Army Corp of Engineers has prompted the agency to start placing warning signs at other dams.
The agency on Thursday erected four large warning signs at the dam where Payton Gonzalez was fatally injured March 25 in Jackson Township. The dam is located where Hershey Road meets the creek. There were no such signs warning of the dangers of the dam when Payton walked to the creek along the Trolley Trail and abandoned railroad tracks with a friend to swim.