CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Several lakes in Northeast Tennessee are below normal levels as the region sees an exceptionally dry summer. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced on Friday that ...

The state agency in charge of testing water quality plans to take samples from Douglas Lake after the Tennessee Valley Authority removed a 4,000-foot floating boom designed to catch debris from ...

TVA prepared before the storm. As the summer ends each year, TVA lowers water levels in its lakes to make room for winter and spring rains. Douglas Lake was about 30 feet lower when Helene hit than at ...

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Dozens of people came to the Field of Dreams Activity Center in Dandridge to figure out what some government agencies are doing to help clean Douglas Lake following Hurricane ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is telling the public to stay off Douglas Lake near Dandridge as it prepares to deploy a 4,000-foot floating barrier to catch a one-square-mile patch of debris from ...

for higher water levels. Then the Nolichucky, French Broad and Pigeon rivers - which feed into TVA's Douglas Lake - all saw record rainfall from the hurricane remnants. There are usually a handful of ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority is releasing a record amount of water through the spillways and power turbines of Douglas Dam, where the three rivers at the epicenter of flooding in East Tennessee – ...

The state said contact with the lake water is safe, but kept a contact advisory in place as it tests water quality.

The Douglas Dam mitigated catastrophic flooding in parts of East Tennessee during Hurricane Helene. The Tennessee Valley Authority had lowered lake levels in preparation for the storm, creating more ...