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The statements about the dam's failure came from Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis, who later declared a state of emergency for the county, according to a Facebook post. The Tennessee Emergency ...
At 9 a.m. Friday, town officials notified the Rutherford County Emergency Management office about the pending dam failure, saying water from the lake was expected to top the dam before 10 a.m.
The dam is roughly 30 miles southeast of Asheville. Flood warnings issued Flood warnings have been issued for several counties and towns in Western North Carolina, including Avery, Alleghany, Ashe ...
Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier could be nearing failure.
The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]
The Derna dam collapses were the catastrophic failures of two dams in Derna, Libya, on the night of 10–11 September 2023, in the aftermath of Storm Daniel.The collapse of the Derna Dam and the Abu Mansour Dam released an estimated 30 million cubic meters (39 million cubic yards) of water, [6] [7] causing flooding downstream as the Wadi Derna overflowed its banks.
Across the border in Tennessee, officials urged some 100,000 residents to seek higher ground Saturday morning as the Nolichucky Dam in Greene County was on the brink of failure, a warning ...
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