A small, 'insignificant' US dam caught in Iranian hacking case

Rye Brook, United States

THE United States has many colossal dams, hydroelectric power generators such as Hoover and Grand Coulee so monumental in scale and purpose that they have been celebrated in song by Woody Guthrie and others.

The Bowman Avenue Dam in this low-key suburban village in Westchester County, New York is not one of those. Its opening is about the width of a modest living room, and the 20-foot-tall dam itself essentially keeps a babbling creek, the Blind Brook, from flooding basements and ground floors in houses downstream.