A pale, mid-morning November sun threw glints of light onto the Nolichucky River’s surface Saturday as Patrick Mannion ...
Upstream flooding in communities like the town of Erwin in Unicoi County was so extreme that it knocked out river gauges that ...
Flooding from Hurricane Helene essentially wiped out CSX rail’s line through the Nolichucky River Gorge, and the company ...
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 ...
The Nolichucky River flows into the French Broad River, which eventually flows west into what’s called the Douglas Reservoir, before forming part of the headwaters of the Tennessee River.
They made some life-saving judgment calls, preemptively closing bridges and prepping communities for evacuation, but area ...
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.