Tennessee Emergency managers were telling everyone in the downtown area of Newport to leave immediately due to the failure of the Walters Dam along the Pigeon River, and the National Weather ...

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 Nashville tweeted earlier in the day that the hurricane was going to ...

Walters Dam is owned and operated by Duke Energy and ... Several water rescues have taken place in Cocke County, according to Tennessee Emergency Management. The Newport Community Center at ...

Walters Dam is owned and operated by Duke Energy. Some parts of TVA's system, which covers East Tennessee and some parts of Western North Carolina, received more than 19 inches of rain from ...

As Hurricane Helene brought historic flooding to Cocke County and devastated riverside communities in upper East Tennessee, reports swirled that Walter's Dam had failed and catastrophic floods ...

also known as Walters Dam, suffered a catastrophic failure and ordered all of downtown Newport to evacuate. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency shared that they were informed that “the dam ...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee declared a state of ... Newport when a dam on the Pigeon River was feared to have failed. Walters Dam, operated by Duke Energy, did not end up failing, though muddy and ...

Although the dam was not breached, residents of Newport, Tennessee, downstream from the Walters Dam, were still asked to evacuate because of flooding. Concern about the Lake Lure dam, which is ...

At Least 43 Dead as Helene Cuts Destructive Path Through Southeastern US By Rich McKay, Joseph Ax and Andrew Hay ATLANTA (Reuters) -Tropical Depression Helene brought life-threatening flooding on ...