The Nolichucky Dam in Tennessee narrowly avoided failure due to flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. ... The Nolichucky River raging near the Nolichucky Dam in Greeneville on Sept. 28, 2024.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee dam that took the brunt of Hurricane Helene’s historic flooding and was feared to be at the brink of failure has been given a relatively clean bill of health.

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – A critical flood emergency was narrowly averted along the Nolichucky River in East Tennessee as the ...

East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Floods from Hurricane Helene tore through them and caused massive destruction as the water brought down roads ...

Flooding caused the Nolichucky Dam near Greeneville in Greene County to withstand nearly twice the water flow of the iconic Niagara Falls, the Tennessee Department of Transportation said two days ...

The Nolichucky Dam, a non-power producing TVA dam near Greeneville, Tennessee, was at active risk of failure beginning Sept. 27 as a record-smashing 1.3 million gallons of water poured through and ...

In what the Tennessee Valley Authority is calling a one-in-5,000-year event, Hurricane Helene brought an inconceivable amount of rainfall to my hometown of Greeneville and the mountains that ...

Local residents watch as water flows over the Nolichucky Dam in Greeneville, Tennessee, on Sept. 28. Hurricane Helene has caused devastating flooding in East Tennessee.

Knox News photojournalists have spread out across East Tennessee. ... Brave locals look at the Nolichucky Dam in Greeneville, Tenn., on Saturday, September 28, 2024.

The Tennessee Valley Authority said about 1.3 million gallons (4.9 million liters) of water per second was flowing over the dam on the night McCrary was swept away, more than double the flow rate ...

Over 30,000 cubic feet per second of water flows over Nolichucky Dam near Greeneville, TN. The dam is operating as designed to allow water to flow over the top.

East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Some counties that the Nolichucky River flows through - Greene, Washington and Unicoi - were hit especially hard ...