Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in US history
Less than a month after the largest dam removal in the U.S. concludes, salmon are once more returning to spawn in cool creeks ...
Underfunded and understaffed, Maine’s dam agency does what it can to keep the aging infrastructure safe
But enforcement capacity remains nearly nonexistent, and current dam safety regulations do not account for climate change.
Let cleanup begin: How North Carolina's debris ended up in Douglas Lake during Helene
Three rivers that swelled to deadly levels during Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27 – the French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon – ...
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TVA's Nolichucky Dam survived extreme flooding, but site will take years to restore
Crews already have moved more than 24,000 tons of rock to the Greene County site to restore shoreline that was ripped away. The flood destroyed a road leading to the dam's old powerhouse ...
USA Today16d
East Tennessee flooding could have been worse: How TVA says it prevented $406M in damage
27 in areas where TVA does not control flooding, such as Cocke County, Unicoi County and Washington County. Dams downstream ...
Knoxville News Sentinel16d
East Tennessee flooding could have been worse: How TVA says it prevented $406M in damage
such as Cocke County, Unicoi County and Washington County. Dams downstream of these communities stored water and slowed its flow but could not prevent all flooding. Douglas Dam spilled up to ...