Toccoa Flood Photographs
November 1977

Looking upstream. There was a bridge where the people are standing--building was situated to receive major brunt of flood wave. This building is currently (August 2002) a visitors center.

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.

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