NORTH CAROLINA — When Tropical Storm Helene brought massive rainfall ... High-hazard potential areas are areas where if a dam were to fail, the risk of death is probable. Significant hazard ...

Seven of 9 regulated dams that failed in November deluge were in poor condition at last DHEC inspection; 5 hadn't been ...

RUTHERFORD COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - Concern about Helene turned to potential catastrophe when officials announced the possibility of the Lake Lure dam failing and flooding more homes around the town ...

The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday after Hurricane Helene inundated the area ... early Friday morning that the dam could fail. Olivia Stewman, the Lake Lure town ...

Just a week before Hurricane Helene brought flooding to East Tennessee on Sept. 27, TVA invested $2.2 million into updating its River Forecast Center at its complex in downtown Knoxville. From the ...

The dam did not fail, nor was it in "imminent failure," DiOrio ... town's dam safety engineering consultant before, during and after Helene, found in general, the concrete portions of the dam ...

Asheville Water said it has inspected the dam several times since Helene and confirmed some repairs need to be made but it is “not in any immediate danger of failing”.

As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became ... United States’ post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing. Officials last week said multiple ...

Hurricane Helene killed and destroyed far and ... In North Carolina, dams were in jeopardy of failing and entire communities are cut off by floods. Floodwaters submerged a hospital in Tennessee ...

As flooding hammered Appalachia in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, residents became intimately familiar with a new norm in the US’s post-storm script: dams at imminent risk of failing.