1997 Toccoa Flood

 Toccoa flood home

• • Photo album
  • USGS Hydrologic Atlas 613

• Federal Investigative Findings
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgements
  • Glossary
  • Authority
  • Purpose
  • Scope
  • Description of Kelly Barnes Dam
  • Public Input
  • History
  • Site investigations
  • Conditions at time of failure
  • Conclusions
  • Photographs

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The November 1977 Toccoa Flood Photo Album

Looking downstream at yellow house on right bank. Hwy 17 bridge in background.

Photographs and descriptions courtesy of Vernon B. Sauer, USGS retiree and a member of the Federal Investigative Board that examined the Kelly Barnes Dam failure.

Ground views taken 7 November 1977, aerial views 11 November 1977.