The Waterville Dam wasn’t the only one that had a breach due to the storm; Walters Dam in Tennessee also failed. The NWS in ...

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) issued an emergency alert from Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis about the Waterville Dam in Newport, Tenn., a city of about 7,000 people.

In just three days, the Tennessee River watershed received the equivalent of two months of rain, TVA said in a news release ...

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As Hurricane Helene brought historic flooding to Cocke County and devastated riverside communities in upper East Tennessee ... which operates the dam in Waterville, North Carolina, later issued ...

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Despite a warning from Cocke County Mayor Rob Mathis that the Waterville Dam suffered a "catastrophic failure", the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency confirmed that the dam was holding.

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.

Officials in Cocke County, Tennessee said on Friday afternoon that the Waterville Dam, just over the state line in North Carolina, had failed and ordered everyone in downtown Newport to get out. State ...