Dams downstream of these communities stored water and slowed its flow but could not prevent all flooding. Douglas Dam spilled ...

Debris torn from Western North Carolina and East Tennessee by flooding rivers largely dumped into one East Tennessee ...

The aging 115-year-old LaPrele Dam southwest of Douglas is in danger of catastrophic failure, so it will be preemptively ...

TVA does not control flooding on the Nolichucky River until it empties into Douglas Lake. The Nolichucky Dam is a "run-of-the ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority will close six campgrounds for winter on Friday, Nov. 15, and they will reopen March 15, 2025.

The 140-foot-high concrete LaPrele Dam, at 115 years old, is in its end of days sooner than expected and will be demolished ...

A Brazilian court on Thursday cleared mining giants BHP and Vale, and their Brazilian joint venture Samarco, of ...

Douglas Dam spilled up to 475,000 gallons per second through its gates to control the flooding, according to the data. TVA uses computer modeling to track what might have happened without dams to ...

TVA owns and operates Douglas Dam, the hydroelectric facility that impounds the French Broad River to create the lake. TVA installed a 4,000-foot floating boom across the lake upstream of ...

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.