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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 ...
“While the immediate danger to those downstream from the dam has been managed, there are still multiple road closures in the area, including Interstate 64 between the Nashville and Ashley exits ...
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.
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J. Percy Priest Dam and hydroelectric power plant Schematic of J. Percy Priest dam, showing the pool levels at various stages of water storage. J. Percy Priest Dam is a dam in north central Tennessee at river mile 6.8 of the Stones River, a tributary of the Cumberland. It is located about ten miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville.
The reservoir emptying through the failed Teton Dam on June 5, 1976 Ruins of the dam of Vega de Tera (Spain) after breaking in 1959. A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. [1]
1912 Nashville residents inspect the V-shaped rupture after the Eighth Avenue South Reservoir collapsed on November 5, 1912. At approximately 12:00 a.m. on November 5, 1912, the southeastern side of the reservoir's main wall ruptured in a 175-foot (53 m) V-shaped breach [6] which allowed nearly 25 million US gallons (95,000 m 3) of water [13] to flood the nearby neighborhood.
The Ashley Community Fire Protection District said at 10:07 a.m. that Illinois 15 was closed on the east side of Nashville because the secondary dam of the Nashville Reservoir breached Tuesday.