DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Dozens of people came to the Field of Dreams Activity Center in Dandridge to figure out what some government agencies are doing to help clean Douglas Lake following Hurricane ...

The state agency in charge of testing water quality plans to take samples from Douglas Lake after the Tennessee Valley Authority removed a 4,000-foot floating boom designed to catch debris from ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Officials recovered the body of a Sevierville man from Douglas Lake after receiving reports of a drowning. Around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Yoser G. Rojas Valverde, 44, ...

The Douglas Dam mitigated catastrophic flooding in parts of East Tennessee during Hurricane Helene. The Tennessee Valley Authority had lowered lake levels in preparation for the storm, creating more ...

About 3,000 tons of manmade debris from the storm washed into Douglas Lake, along with 177,000 cubic yards of vegetation. TVA and contract crews finished clearing it earlier this summer. At a dam in ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Efforts to clean up debris at Douglas Lake are in motion, but officials warn it will take time. Scott Turnbow, the Tennessee Valley Authority's vice president of civil ...

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency has issued a safety advisory urging boaters on Douglas Lake to be on the lookout for debris. “If you go to Douglas Lake and you go ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Tenn. — Along the banks of Douglas Lake, there are old tires, empty beer bottles and a child's snorkel among at least 500,000 cubic yards of debris after Hurricane Helene hit East ...

Turnout was so high that TEMA ran out of English-language literature to hand residents within the first half of the two-hour event. Some people took a flyer in Spanish to translate later.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is telling the public to stay off Douglas Lake near Dandridge as it prepares to deploy a 4,000-foot floating barrier to catch a one-square-mile patch of debris from ...

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — Douglas Lake in Jefferson County spans more than 28,000 acres and offers visitors and residents more than 513 miles of shoreline. Along the shore, tucked away in one of the ...

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (WATE) — This week, Dandridge leaders approved a $89,000 construction bid that will launch a brand new greenway walking trail project along Douglas Lake. The greenway walking trail is ...