Upstream flooding in communities like the town of Erwin in Unicoi County was so extreme that it knocked out river gauges that ...

Mount Mitchell State Park, high above the Nolichucky’s headwaters, got 24 inches. And tiny Busick, a community along Still Fork Creek just upstream of its confluence with the South Toe River (a ...

Two bridges across the Nolichucky River that were swept away in the East Tennessee floods caused by Hurricane Helene could be replaced as soon as this summer. Normally, projects as extensive as ...

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.