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Watch: Drone footage of flooding in Nashville, Illinois, after a dam failed. July 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM.
In Washington County, the secondary dam of the Nashville reservoir failed, but relieved the pressure on the primary dam to keep it stable, a turn of events Washington County Illinois Emergency ...
On July 26, 2022, a secondary dam on the city reservoir was breached after over four inches of rain fell near Nashville in less than 12 hours, causing a 6-foot breach and flooding nearly 40 acres ...
July 16 – Heavy rainfall across the Midwestern United States causes a dam failure in Washington County, Illinois, prompting an immediate evacuation order in the nearby city of Nashville. [ 6 ] August 20 – Several pro- Palestinian demonstrators are arrested after protestors clashed with police near the Israeli consulate in Chicago , on the ...
Nashville was originally called New Nashville; under the latter name, it was laid out in 1830. [6] The local post office was established as Nashville in 1831. [7] On June 28, 2020, Nashville was the site of a successful attempt at the world record for most pogo stick jumps with no hands.
It is located about ten miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville. The reservoir behind the dam is Percy Priest Lake . It is one of four major flood control reservoirs for the Cumberland; the others being Wolf Creek Dam , Dale Hollow Dam , and Center Hill Dam .
The last set of cars drives through flooding on Illinois State Route 127, south of Interstate 64, before police shut down the road in Nashville, Ill. on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (AP)
Two failures of the Nashville Reservoir dam in Illinois amidst intense flooding Tuesday have led officials to urge residents in nearly 300 homes to evacuate.