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Jimmy Bramblett, assistant state conservationist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service in Athens, Ga., provided the Times Free Press with a copy of a dam inspection from Feb. 25, 2009.
"I'm not sure why it's not showing up (in the National Inventory of Dams)," Mr. Bramblett said.
"We assist (Trion city officials) with an inspection every year. And every five years we go out and do a more formal inspection report with an engineer," he said.
Mr. Bramblett said the February 2009 inspection was one of those formal, five-year reports.
Trion Mayor Benjamin Perry said Wednesday he didn't know who inspected the dikes. On Friday, when told that USDA is claiming to have inspected them yearly with Trion Public Works Director Waymon Blansit, Mr. Perry said, "That doesn't ring a bell to me."
Mr. Blansit could not be reached for comment Friday afternoon.
The National Inventory of Dams tracks only the formal every-five-year dam safety checks, whether they are inspected by states, federal agencies or the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to Rebecca Ragon, the keeper of the dam inventory for the Corps of Engineers.
Neither she nor USDA officials could explain why there was a gap in posted inspections on the inventory, which was last updated in 2007.
PDF: Trion inspection reports
PDF: Senate Joint Resolution 306
ON THE WEB
To see an image from NASA's Earth Observatory showing flooding in the southeastern U.S. visit http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40266&src=eoa-iotd
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FLOODING TIPS
--If flooding occurs, get to higher ground. Avoid areas subject to flooding, including dips, low spots, canyons and washes.
--Avoid areas that are already flooded. Do not attempt to cross flowing streams.
--Never drive through flooded roadways.
--If your vehicle is suddenly caught in rising water, leave it immediately and seek higher ground.
--Be especially cautious at night, when it is harder to recognize flood dangers
Source: National Weather Service
SHELTERS
Walker County
Walker County Civic Center on U.S. Highway 27 in Rock Spring
Hamilton County
Brainerd Recreation Center, 1010 N. Moore Road, Chattanooga
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Article: Walker flood victims deal with aftermath
Article: Several schools close
Video: Flood waters engulf East Ridge
Video: Flooding displaces 500 people
PDF: List of streets closed in East Ridge
Opinion: Meeting a weather challenge
Video: East Ridge flooding
Article: Several schools close in wake of flooding
Video: 23rd Street flooding
Article: Walker residents chased from homes by floods
Article: Rain limits football teams, too
Article: Vest, Cothran win rainy region golf tournament
Article: Rain stops work on road to VW plant
Article: Softball makeups piling up
Article: Rain days may drown out schools' snow days
Article: Area golf courses take a soaking
Slideshow: Rain Floods the Area
Article: TVA opening 7 dams to deal with rainfall
Article: Rescuers still searching for man in culvert
Article: Hundreds evacuated as water tops levee in Chattooga County
Article: Catoosa spring shut down; water conservation asked
Article: Homes being evacuated, some by boat
Article: High waters flood many area roads while number of school systems are closed
Article: Flooding closes Whitfield roads
Article: North Georgia schools wary of weather
Article: Rainfall hinders search for man presumed dead
Article: Man swept away in Sunday's rainfall
Article: Some say they're sick of getting soaked
Article: GPS tops rain, Ensworth
Photo: Tunnel Hill Civil War Reenactment
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AREA'S WORST FLOODS
Chattanooga's worst flooding occurred in the years before the Tennessee Valley Authority build its system of reservoirs and dams. Here are the highest waters in the city's history:
March, 1867 -- The largest flood in city history crested at 58 feet, 27.9 feet above flood stage, inundating downtown.
March, 1875 -- The Tennessee River crested at 23.5 feet above flood stage.
April, 1886 -- More than 4,000 homeless residents were taken by boats to higher ground at Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge. The river crested at 22.3 feet above flood stage.
March, 1917 -- The river crested at 17.7 feet above flood stage. Many homes, businesses were inundated.
March, 1973 -- More than 10,000 acres, much of that in Brainerd, were under water after about 10 inches of rain. The river crested at 6.9 feet above flood stage, and damage citywide was estimated at $66.6 million.
May, 2003 -- Three days of thunderstorm runoff damages an estimated 480 buildings in city's worst flooding since 1973.
September, 2009 -- Seven days of showers dumped nearly 10 inches of rain on the area. The South Chickamauga Creek reached 28.5 feet, nearing an all-time high.
Sources: TVA, newspaper archives, catskillarchive.com
Sheri Teems, USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist in Rome, Ga., said the Natural Resources Conservation Service -- formerly called the Soil Conservation Service -- designed and built three dikes in Trion.
One is 14 feet tall, one is 15 feet tall and one is 6 feet tall, according to the inventory, which lists 2001 as the last inspection dates for all three. The inventory also lists the USDA's Conservation Service as the source of the inspection information, but it does not list that agency as being responsible for the inspections.
"I don't know that we send anything to the Corps of Engineers," Ms. Teems said.
"We've continued the inspections over the years," she said, adding that the Conservation Service went back to Trion "three days ago" and inspected the dam again after the floods.
She said the dam did not breach and still is in good shape.
"The city of Trion has operations and maintenance responsibility (for the dikes), and they do a very good job," she said.
The North Georgia area received more than 10 inches of rain in the week prior to the flooding.
Ms. Teems said she doesn't know why there is a gap in the inventory about the inspections.
"I don't know why there's a disconnect," she said. "If the Corps of Engineers is responsible for maintaining the inventory, they should be responsible for keeping accurate data. The bottom line is that (it) wasn't correct."
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