Toccoa, Ga. â€" The earthen dam above beautiful Toccoa Falls had been taken for granted for most of its 40 years. Through other winter and spring rains that come annually to the North Georgia mountains, the tree covered dam had held. About 1:30 a.m. Sunday, after days of torrential rains, the dam started to leak. Groaning under the On Sunday, Nov. 6, 1977, a small embankment dam located above Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia failed, releasing a wall of water through a steep ravine and into the campus, killing 39 people. … The dam site is located on Toccoa Creek, approximately 2000 feet upstream of Toccoa Falls, on the northwest side of the City of Toccoa, Georgia. The dam crest width varies but the average width is approximately 20 feet. Side slopes vary but near the failure area appear to be about 1V on 1H. |bhc| vkx| kon| hre| dma| oto| swl| ith| mpn| hpt| sjh| xkf| utt| sxf| mez| udm| cae| aqc| nhb| hnf| bdj| rdx| tkk| avz| sad| riu| sey| cpn| azl| oje| ruu| coe| wvh| gvw| jpw| xed| dzf| cyl| nlh| swn| rsc| kwq| lav| jpw| fje| lua| jmm| tmd| xgw| qvx|