'Emergency Update' || All of downtown Newport being evacuated after 'catastrophic failure' of dam in Waterville, NC
UPDATE (3 p.m.): All of downtown Newport is being told to evacuate immediately after the Walters Dam in the community of ...
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Hundreds evacuated over feared dam failure in North Carolina following Storm Helene flooding
Residents downstream of two North Carolina dams were evacuated ... affected by the evacuations, but Newport has an estimated population of about 7,000 and Lake Lure has about 1,600.