Residents of Newport, Tennessee, have been ordered to evacuate ... in a post to Facebook just before 3 p.m. EST Friday, writing that the Waterville Dam had "suffered a catastrophic failure." ...

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 ...

27 following reports that a North Carolina dam had "suffered a catastrophic failure," though the Tennessee Emergency ... Walters Dam is also known as the Waterville Dam and both names were used ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... Officials in Cocke County, Tennessee said on Friday afternoon that the Waterville Dam, just over the state line in North Carolina, had failed and ...

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 Tennessee ... dam was "stable and secure." No TVA dams were at risk of failure Sept. 29, and flood waters have been receding. Cocke County officials feared Walters Dam − also known as ...

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency warned of a breach of the Waterville Dam, across the border in North Carolina, but officials later said that it had not failed. Duke Energy, the ...