I'm still watching Douglas Dam because it makes me nervous. Several large rivers flow into the reservoir, and when it leaves the dam it's still the French Broad River, but within a couple of miles it merges with another river and becomes the head of the Tennessee. It's an old dam (aren't they all at this point? Still, it's 80 years old) and there was a lot of bragging about it being built super-rapid fast, 382 days from breaking ground to creating electricity, which means the concrete didn't likely have enough time to properly cure.
No one is saying it's at risk. There are lots of complaints of downstream flooding because every gate is wide open, but no one is even hinting that it won't hold. This dam has always given me the heeby jeebies though, just traveling near it -- there's a bridge that crosses the river just downstream from it and... well. We'll just say I'm watching it.
The two elevation numbers are the reservoir behind the dam and then the river it dumps into. TVA gives the past 48 hours of data, and I'm showing the oldest and newest, just for the record.
So, the reservoir is sixteen feet higher, when it was already high, and the river is nine feet higher.
And here is their short term prediction, which tells us the reservoir is only going to go a few feet higher than it is now.
Mostly, this makes me feel better, so I figured I'd share it.