87mw Norwood Dam on Pee Dee River creating Lake Tillery near Mt. Gilead, NC

(Satellite)

The railroad bridge in the foreground was for the original Norfolk Southern, which became part of Southern, which became part of today's Norfolk Southern. But it is now Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway (ACRY).

Street View, May 2023

This view shows that the river was running high in 2023.

Street View, Dec 2021

LakeTillery
"2800' (853m) long and 86' (26m) high"

Sep 29, 2018: StanlyJournal, Michael Lanier for the Stanly County Journal
Hurricane Florence floods Stanly County

safe_image for Aberdeen Carolina & Western E9A
Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway Company poses its passenger train being led by E9A, No. 103, on the Duke Energy Hydro Dam over the Pee Dee River west of Mt. Gilead, N.C., on Thursday, May 25th, 2023. Fred Pajak
Randall Hampton: This is one of the best RR bridges in NC, especially when the floodgates are open and the whitewater comes up high on the bridge.

 

Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway posted
Spring is just around the curve.
Randall Hampton shared
Former NS bridge on the old main line from Norfolk to Charlotte, where it crosses the Pee Dee River near Norwood.

Trains

Satellite

2:47 video @ 2:05
Lake Tillery, Pee Dee River aerial footage, Norwood NC 4K

3:25 video @ 2:10
Hydro Dam / Norwood, NC / Hurricane Florence

 

@ 2:35

Note that just four gates can spill enough water to flood part of a field.

@ 1:21

This is after Hurricane Debby passed over the area.

0:13 video

Opening flood gates to 100% at Pee Dee. 14.8 feet right now and rising

Video sent in by viewer

Greg Sikes: Wayne Murdock it's hydro dam on 731. [So it is this one.]

Steve Tedder: Can you explain what you mean by 100 percent ? The floodgates (or tainter [Parker] gates as they are sometimes referred as) have never all been opened at the same time. The closest that has ever happened was when 17 of the 18 were open in , I think 1945. My Dad always told us all 18 were opened but that was corrected to 17 by an employee of Duke Energy. Each gate can be raised to a height of 20’

John Henderson: doesn’t know. It’s a fear post for likes. And believe me it’s working. We have poor souls in the southern part of South Carolina wondering where the dam is. SMH

[I presume 100% is what they can release before they trip another stage of downriver flooding.]

Kurt Lindbloom: That river was nearly dried up a few weeks ago… no more drought.

They received 10-12 inches of rain in 2 days there from TS Debbie. I used to live in that area. Matthews NC .

[Some comments discuss why weren't the gates opened earlier to make room for the tropical storm's rain.]