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TVA does not control flooding on the Nolichucky River until it empties into Douglas Lake. The Nolichucky Dam is a "run-of-the-river" dam, meaning it does not provide water storage to control flooding.
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 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.
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 ...
The TVA was investigating the dam to figure out the next steps. [270] 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. [271] A total of five state-maintained bridges were destroyed. [272]
Golf course irrigation dam owned by Metro Nashville. Sevenmile Dam 4 ft (1.2 m) 2015 ... Nolichucky River: Hydropower dam. Lake Deforest Dam 36 ft (11 m)
By 4 p.m. Sept. 28, TVA reported that Nolichucky Dam had been found to be "stable and secure" as water levels continued to drop. "We are notifying local emergency management agencies that we are ...
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