Online reservations for camping in 2025 will open on December 1 through Vista Recreation. Additionally, all of the staffed ...

Three rivers that swelled to deadly levels during Hurricane Helene on Sept. 27 – the French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon – ...

A Brazilian court on Thursday cleared mining giants BHP and Vale, and their Brazilian joint venture Samarco, of ...

The 140-foot-high concrete LaPrele Dam, at 115 years old, is in its end of days sooner than expected and will be demolished ...

The Nolichucky Dam is a "run-of-the-river" dam, meaning it does not provide water storage to control flooding. Under normal ...

Structure that serves 100 irrigators will cost more than $118 million to replace. State will rush to demolish current structure before spring runoff season.

The aging 115-year-old LaPrele Dam southwest of Douglas is in danger of catastrophic failure, so it will be preemptively ...

TVA owns and operates Douglas Dam, the hydroelectric facility that impounds the French Broad River to create the lake. TVA installed a 4,000-foot floating boom across the lake upstream of ...

TVA does not control flooding on the Nolichucky River until it empties into Douglas Lake. The Nolichucky Dam is a "run-of-the-river" dam, meaning it does not provide water storage to control flooding.

Dams downstream of these communities stored water and slowed its flow but could not prevent all flooding. Douglas Dam spilled up to 475,000 gallons per second through its gates to control the flooding ...