should move a safe distance from the waters edge on the Pigeon River!!” wrote the Cocke County Emergency Management Agency director Joe Esway. Minor flooding is expected along the river tonight ...
It said flooding along the Pigeon River continues related to Hurricane Helene. All of downtown Newport was told to evacuate immediately after the Walters Dam in the community of Waterville ...
On top of the $41 million WRDA of 2024 sets aside for the Pigeon River flood mitigation, the bill includes funding for water infrastructure in Murphy, Weaverville and Robbinsville. Dam support The ...
Helene’s intense rains didn’t just threaten homes and lives with rising floodwaters but also spawned fatal landslides. According to the USGS, Helene triggered more than 2,000 landslides, most of them ...
COCKE COUNTY, Tenn. — Everyone downriver from Waterville Road in Cocke County is being urged to move a safe distance from the water's edge on the Pigeon River, according to the Cocke County ...
(WATE) — While the occasional flood has come as no surprise to the ... located most of the equipment that was swept into the Pigeon River and they are working together to remove the debris.
Janet Sams lives on the Pigeon River in Newport and lost everything in the flood. God’s Pit Crew, a Virginia-based non-profit, gifted her the brand new home Saturday morning. “I’ve seen this ...
The primary road connection between North Carolina and eastern Tennessee was severed in late September as flooding in the Pigeon River gorge washed away over 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) of I-40's ...