Crews are preparing to break ground on a major wastewater lagoon project for the town of Waterville, following a ...

The pumps were among several pieces of heavy equipment being used to work on the Walters Hydro Station near the Tennessee/North Carolina ... Sunday afternoon, Esway said the dam, commonly known as the ...

At 4:41 p.m. Duke Energy alerted the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency the Waterville Dam, also known as the Walters Dam, did not fail. However, evacuations continued. Two people died in Cocke ...

East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Floods from Hurricane Helene tore through them and caused massive destruction as the water brought down roads ...

In eastern Tennessee, thousands were evacuated after the failure of Waterville dam. Meantime, less than 100 miles away, the water was topping the Lake Lure dam. Water flows over the top of the ...

Tennessee, had failed. It did not. Walters Dam, and the Waterville Power Plant six miles downstream, have a nearly 100-year history. Completed in 1927, the dam is 180 feet tall, an engineering marvel ...

Western North Carolina holds the Pigeon, Nolichucky and French Broad rivers, which flow into Tennessee. The Pigeon is impounded by the Walters/Waterville dam — on Friday, officials warned this dam had ...

Meanwhile, confusion reigned in Newport, Tennessee, on Friday afternoon, after local officials announced that the Walters Dam — also known as the Waterville Dam — had “suffered a ...

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.

Residents downstream of two North Carolina dams were evacuated after reports of a “catastrophic failure” due to flooding from Hurricane Helene. Officials in Cocke County, Tennessee said on Friday ...

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.

In Tennessee, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Nolichucky and Douglas dams were threatened; and in North Carolina, Duke Energy’s Walters Dam (also known as Waterville Dam) was the subject of concern.