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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.
Some of those buildings had stood since at least the 1950s. A few had gotten wet during historic floods such as one that followed a pair of hurricanes in 1996, “but this is 10 times worse ...
At the peak of Helene’s rains, a warning went out that the Lake Lure Dam was at imminent risk of failing, as water spilled over the top of its 124-foot tall structure. An evacuation order was ...
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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The Times-News is an American, English language daily newspaper headquartered in Hendersonville, North Carolina. It has served Henderson, Transylvania and Polk counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina since 1881. The Hendersonville Times began in 1881 and the Hendersonville News in 1894. [3] [1]
The Times News is a newspaper published daily except Sundays in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] Its predecessor publications include the 1883 Mauch Chunk Daily Times of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania , and the 1951 Jim Thorpe Times News of Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania .
From 2013 to 2023, 283 dams in the U.S. experienced some kind of failure, according to data provided by the Association of State Dam Safety Officials and analyzed by NBC News this summer. Most dam ...