After a day of heavy rainfall in the Great Smoky Mountains, the Nolichucky River was rising at 2 feet per hour. Around 1.3 million gallons of water were pouring over the dam each second at 11 p.m ...

Which communities were affected by East Tennessee flooding. This map shows key rivers − French Broad, Nolichucky and Pigeon − and dams that were hit hard by the floods.

WESTERN Ky. (KFVS) - The Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River is open and spilling water after days of rain. According to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Sunday, February 16, ...

The Tennessee Riverline's interactive map at arcg.is/1eGHmW can be a helpful tool to find river features and nearby amenities. Advertisement Know Your Knox answers your burning questions about ...

Kentucky Dam, the last of nine dams on the Tennessee River, is spilling almost 2 million gallons of water per second as we move tremendous amounts of water through the system after days of rain.

By Oct. 2, the only National Weather Service flood warning in East Tennessee was for areas of Sevier and Knox counties below Douglas Dam. Douglas Lake rose nearly 22 feet in three days between ...

Hurricane Helene became a catastrophe in East Tennessee on Sept. 27 when it turned small tributary rivers into chaotic rapids, but the Tennessee River that flows through Knoxville is not expected ...

GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – A critical flood emergency was narrowly averted along the Nolichucky River in East Tennessee as the remnants of Hurricane Helene unleashed torrential rainfall, pushing the ...

Nearly 50 years after the snail darter temporarily blocked the construction of a dam in Tennessee, researchers at Yale University found that the endangered species technically is not a species at all.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) dam systems were put to the test during Helene. Following the severe weather, teams have worked to see which dams are safe and ...

East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Some counties that the Nolichucky River flows through - Greene, Washington and Unicoi - were hit especially hard ...