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Video by Stacey G. Wyzykowski

Berlin Lake Eclipse 2024

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District

April 8, 2024 | 1:53

Elizabeth Morsillo and Nicole Govan, natural resource specialists with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District, share their experiences of the total solar eclipse as it passed over Berlin Lake Dam in Deerfield Township, Ohio, April 8, 2024.

Berlin Lake is one of 16 flood damage reduction projects in the Pittsburgh District. The reservoir provides flood protection for the Mahoning River Valley as well as for the Beaver and Upper Ohio Rivers. The Pittsburgh District had a total of seven reservoirs located within the solar eclipse’s path of totality in 2024. The locations included Michael J. Kirwan Dam in Ravenna, Ohio; Berlin Lake Dam in Deerfield Township, Ohio; Mosquito Creek Lake in Cortland, Ohio; Shenango River Lake in Hermitage, Pennsylvania; Woodcock Creek Lake in Saegertown, Pennsylvania; Union City Dam in Waterford, Pennsylvania; and the Allegheny Reservoir which stretches across northwestern Pennsylvania into New York.

Since the founding of the United States in 1776, there have been 21 total solar eclipses visible from the continental U.S. The next total solar eclipse visible from North America will be Aug. 22, 2044, over North Dakota and Montana.

Pittsburgh District’s reservoirs are designed for flood risk reduction and provide waterflow to navigable waterways, but they are also popular recreational destinations for fishing, water sports and enjoying the outdoors.

(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video filmed and edited by Stacey Wyzykowski; photos by Nicole Govan and Elizabeth Morsillo; total eclipse stock footage from Getty Images / Licensed content from Getty Images and Megatrax Production Music, LLC)