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Watch: Drone footage of flooding in Nashville, Illinois, after a dam failed. July 16, 2024 at 10:38 AM.
On July 26, 2022, a secondary dam on the city reservoir was breached after over four inches of rain fell near Nashville in less than 12 hours, causing a 6-foot breach and flooding nearly 40 acres ...
Two failures of the Nashville Reservoir dam in Illinois amidst intense flooding Tuesday have led officials to urge residents in nearly 300 homes to evacuate.
On July 16, heavy rainfall attributed to the now-weakened derecho the previous night threatened to overtop the Nashville City Reservoir Dam, which prompted the evacuation of 200 homes in Nashville, Illinois. First responders working with Washington County emergency management assisted a resident unable to evacuate initially. [2]
HAER No. IL-28, "Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 17, New Boston, Mercer County, IL", 78 photos, 14 data pages, 5 photo caption pages HAER No. IL-29, " Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel Project, Lock & Dam No. 18, Gladstone, Henderson County, IL ", 18 photos, 15 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
The upper reservoir can hold about 1.5 billion US gallons (4,600 acre-feet; 5.7 million cubic metres) of water behind a wall nearly 100 feet (30 m) tall. [12] It sits 760 feet (230 m) above the 450 MW hydroelectric plant, which gives it a greater head than that of Hoover Dam.
In Washington County, the secondary dam of the Nashville reservoir failed, but relieved the pressure on the primary dam to keep it stable, a turn of events Washington County Illinois Emergency ...
See also: Oroville Dam crisis: Kakhovka Dam: Kherson Oblast Ukraine (occupied by Russia) Breached during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The destruction of the dam led to tens of thousands of people being in a flood zone and more than 50 deaths. 2023: See also: Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam: Bargi hydroelectric power station: Camugnano Italy