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

Right embankment-- shows pipe, old low dam, silt layers, bolted log (lower left). Note tree root penetration through dam embankment.

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.