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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 ...
“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 ...
This, combined with additional rainfall and flooding on July 28, led to a state of emergency being declared by Governor Jim Justice for six counties: Mingo, McDowell, Fayette, Greenbrier, Logan, and Wyoming. [45] Partly as a result of the flooding, Huntington, West Virginia recorded their wettest July on record with 9.41 in (239 mm) of rain. [46]
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)
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.
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 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.