Editing Indian Lake, New York (section)

===Rainbow Lake Dam===
Rainbow Lake dam was built in 1929.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=DEC vs. Jason Roberts |url=https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/dec-vs-jason-roberts-rainbow-lake-dam |access-date=September 1, 2023 |website=Adirondack Explorer |language=en-US}}</ref> Safety inspectors had described the dam as dangerous as early as 1970, and the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]] categorized the dam as "unsafe, emergency" in 1979. The [[New York State Department of Environmental Conservation]] called for the dam's removal in 2004 due to the potential to cause loss of life should the dam fail. The dam owners, connected to a New York City real estate developer and a religious non-profit organization in Brooklyn, ignored an order from the DEC commissioner that required submitting an emergency action plan, and skipped a judicial hearing, in 2013. The DEC lawyers subsequently referred the case to the state attorney general. The dam owners missed three other deadlines between 2015 and 2016; the state sued in December 2018 on grounds that the owners' unresponsiveness "amounts to a callous and wanton disregard for their legal duty to mitigate risk to life and property".

The Rainbow Lake Dam, near the hamlet of Indian Lake, New York, was removed in May 2023.<ref name=":0" />