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At 9 a.m. Friday, town officials notified the Rutherford County Emergency Management office about the pending dam failure, saying water from the lake was expected to top the dam before 10 a.m.
The nearly 100-year-old dam suffered damage to its structural supports but was still holding Friday afternoon, officials said. NC officials detect damage to Lake Lure dam after emergency ...
The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday after Hurricane Helene inundated the area, forcing evacuations and prompting warnings from officials early Friday morning that the dam ...
Evacuation sirens sounded in settlements downstream of the dam and about 1,600 Lake Lure residents were given evacuation orders. Lake Lure Dam was later evaluated to have no imminent failure expected, although erosion on both sides of the dam and the compromising of the structural supports were reported. [60] [61] [62]
The National Weather Service issued a flash flood emergency for Rutherford County, east of Asheville, saying around 11 a.m. that a failure at the Lake Lure Dam was imminent and people below the ...
Lake Lure is located at According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 14.8 square miles (38 km 2), of which, 13.6 square miles (35 km 2) of it is land and 1.2 square miles (3.1 km 2) of it (8.11%) is water.
LAKE LURE, N.C. – Authorities went house-to-house urging people below the dam of a popular lake in the western North Carolina mountains to evacuate Friday after officials warned the barrier ...
This company funded dam construction on the Broad River which produced the lake after which the town is named. [3] The dam took two years to build and Lake Lure was finally impounded and filled by 1927. [4] At ordinary water levels, Lake Lure covers approximately 720 acres (2.9 km 2) and has a shoreline of approximately 27 miles (43 km). [4]