The widow of a man who drowned in South Carolina's historic 2015flooding is suing the federal government over a dam that failed onan Army base near Columbia, according to the Associated Press.

The lawsuit, filed in late December by Lois McCarty, seeksunspecified damages related to the death of her husband early onthe morning of Oct. 4, 2015.

According to the suit, Bob McCarty was in his car at 6:30 a.m.that morning when he was swept away in floodwaters rushing fromSemmes Lake, a 29-acre, man-made lake at Fort Jackson, the Army'slargest basic training installation. The lake feeds into a systemof creeks and other bodies of water throughout Columbia. McCartyalleges her husband was in an area below the dam when his car wasswept away.

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The Semmes Lake dam failed at around 3 a.m. that day, not longafter rain started to fall at about a rate of 2 inches per hour.The area received 2 feet of rain in about 12 hours.

The 76-year-old dam was inspected just two years earlier.According to the lawsuit, however, the government "utterly failedto remedy or even address the dam's serious risk of failure"following the 2013 inspection. Lawyers wrote that the governmentknew the dangers of maintaining the dam "in its seriously hazardouscondition but chose not to correct the deficiencies" or repair thedam, adding that officials at Fort Jackson also didn't warn peopleincluding McCarty of the dam failure.

Other lawsuits related to the failure of Semmes Lake's dam arepending, reports AP. Property owners in King's Grant, an upscalesubdivision just outside the fort's gate, are suing the governmentover millions in property damage, and the subdivision homeowners'association filed a suit over damage to some of the neighborhood'scommon areas.

At least 19 people were killed in the Carolinas in October 2015during days of historic rain and flooding.