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Hundreds evacuated over feared dam failure in North Carolina following Storm Helene flooding
Residents downstream of two North Carolina dams were evacuated ... “EMERGENCY UPDATE: THE WATERVILLE DAM HAS SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. EVACUATION ALL OF DOWNTOWN NEWPORT IMMEDIATELY ...
Lake Lure Dam in western NC stable after imminent failure warning; emergency repairs begin
spokesman for the NC Department of Environmental Quality. “The structure remained intact following the storm,” Kastrinsky ...
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Lessons in disaster: Holes in emergency plan underscored Helene response challenges in NC
False reports also circulated about flooding and dam failures in Tennessee, which were incorrectly linked to infrastructure in North Carolina. “These rumors force us to divert resources to confi ...
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MSU, others looking at how river is changing after Rapidan Dam failure
In late June last year the Rapidan Dam suffered a catastrophic failure when floodwaters tore around the west end of the dam, eating away the shoreline and sending more than a century’s worth of ...