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The dam is located just over 46 miles (74 km) upstream from the mouth of the Nolichucky, and impounds Davy Crockett Lake, [1] [2] which extends 6 miles (9.7 km) upstream from the dam. [2] [3] The dam is a concrete gravity overflow type dam 94 feet (29 m) high and 482 feet (147 m) long. [2] [3] The dam has an ogee-type spillway with a flashboard ...
Douglas Dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second. The Nolichucky Dam withstood twice the water flow of Niagara Falls. Tennessee flooding map shows the dams and rivers ...
The non-power dam withstood twice the flow of Niagara Falls, but surrounding infrastructure was not so lucky. TVA's Nolichucky Dam survived extreme flooding, but site will take years to restore ...
Flash flood warnings related to worries over the failure of the Nolichucky Dam continue until 4 p.m. in East Tennessee for: North Central Cocke County. Southwestern Greene County.
The film is about the Buffalo Creek Flood, an incident that occurred on February 26, 1972, when the Pittston Coal Company's coal slurry impoundment dam in Logan County, West Virginia burst four days after having been declared 'satisfactory' by a federal mine inspector. The film includes interviews with survivors, mining officials, and union ...
The TVA was investigating the dam to figure out the next steps. [268] 12 mi (19 km) northeast of the Nolichucky Dam, the Kinser Bridge, which is a part of SR 107, usually 60 ft (18 m) above the Nolichucky River, collapsed after floodwaters overran the bridge. [269] A total of five state-maintained bridges were destroyed. [270]
The utility posted a video of the dam the morning of Sept. 28, when water was receding by one feet each hour. The record flow of water over Nolichucky occurred late the night before.
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