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Bookmark or Share- On Today's Date: A Dam Failure Years Before HeleneA vehicle, trailer and utility pole are in a jumbled in a pile after a flash flood triggered by Kelly Barnes Dam failure in Toccoa Falls, Georgia, in Nov. 1977. (Glenn Schwartz via NOAA) Advertisement
- Kelly Barnes Dam (Georgia, 1977) - ASDSO Lessons LearnedFrom 1939-1949, the 38-foot-high earth fill dam called Kelly Barnes Dam was built over the top of the existing rock crib dam. This dam included a low-level outlet, consisting of a 30-inch diameter metal pipe along the original streambed.
- Dam gives way in Georgia, killing 39 | November 6, 1977 - HISTORYOn November 6, 1977, the Toccoa Falls Dam in Georgia gives way and 39 people die in the resulting flood. Ninety miles north of Atlanta, the Toccoa (Cherokee for “beautiful”) Falls Dam was ...
- A flood in Georgia, devastated Toccoa Falls College in 1977.On Nov. 6, 1977, the Kelly Barnes Dam burst above Toccoa Falls College in Stephens County, Georgia. The flood waters poured over the falls and swept through the college campus, killing 39...
- Kelly Barnes Dam Flood of November 6, 1977, near Toccoa, GeorgiaThe Kelly Barnes Dam on Toccoa Creek near Toccoa, Ga., failed at approximately 1:30 a.m., November 6, 1977, after a period of intensive rain. Thirty-nine people were killed and damages were estimated at $2.8 million by the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Roland Serabia and ...
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