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“It’s not an enormous area, but it’s an enormous effect for the people in that area,” one official said of the flooding. Watch: Drone footage of flooding in Nashville, Illinois, after a ...
The last set of cars drives through flooding on Illinois State Route 127, south of Interstate 64, before police shut down the road in Nashville, Ill. on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 (AP)
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 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 ...
An additional 2.7 in (6.9 cm) of rain fell in Rockford, contributing to flooding conditions. [10] The most destructive event of the sequence was a severe derecho that affected much of eastern Iowa, northern Illinois, and northwest Indiana on July 15 and 16.
It is located about ten miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville. The reservoir behind the dam is Percy Priest Lake. It is one of four major flood control reservoirs for the Cumberland; the others being Wolf Creek Dam, Dale Hollow Dam, and Center Hill Dam. [1]
The secondary dam of the Nashville reservoir has failed, the Washington County Illinois Emergency Management announced. “Please prepare to evacuate if needed. You are in the potential flood zone.
An Illinois Department of Transportation road closure map showed the following roads in the East St. Louis area and Cahokia Heights were closed at 3 p.m. due to flooding: Interstate 255 southbound ...