Intense rainfall in the wake of Hurricane Helene threatened to breach dams across east Tennessee and western North Carolina in recent days, but structures held despite the pressure.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public power utility, confirmed all 49 of its dams remain intact, even as it reported releasing record amounts of water from some facilities.
“All of TVA’s dams are intact, stable and performing as designed,” TVA spokesperson Scott Brooks told POLITICO’s E&E News on Monday.
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Although the agency warned late Friday night of an “imminent failure” of its 94-foot-high Nolichucky Dam, a facility about 40 miles northwest of Asheville, North Carolina, it reported Saturday morning that the site was “stable and secure.”
