Glad you enjoyed. I will try to continue following the dam removal and make a better video about the history of the area regarding dams along the green and her tributaries.
This was neat information to learn, as my family and I just ventured to the lower big hungry falls today... I'm assuming the building on the other side of the lower falls, with the tail stock hanging down was the generation portion for the lower dam?? I can't find any information on that, but will continue looking...
Yes the lower dam was built to replace the upper dam that was destroyed twice in short order by floods. What you saw is all that remains of the lower dam.
So, this is the LOWER dam? How far up was/is the upper dam? Also, this was slated to be removed back in 2015-ish but they backed off because of sediment fears?
The flood from Hurricane Helene took care of removing that Big Hungry Dam. I was wondering about why it was there out in what is the middle of forest now. Maybe it was largely cleared a century ago.
It was built to generate electricity to power Hendersonville. It failed during the Helene flood and damaged the Green River Narrows bedrock as well as destroying many home downstream at the peak of the flood. I witnessed the damage done live and in person in the Green River Cove. Duke Power and Northbrook both declined to remove the dam with concerns of cost. Those costs have been passed on to others down stream. Work needs to be done now on what remains of the dam. I didn't even generate power long before being replaced with a dam further downstream.
@@FastFredRuddock There is an excellent UA-cam video posted a few days ago by "The GeoModel" about walking up the Big Hungry River gorge and he stops and looks at the remains of the dam. I was curious about why the dam was there, and I found your video that has excellent background.
The history stuff is cool too! I’m not that familiar with the green in NC. I love learning more about these areas.
Glad you enjoyed. I will try to continue following the dam removal and make a better video about the history of the area regarding dams along the green and her tributaries.
This was neat information to learn, as my family and I just ventured to the lower big hungry falls today... I'm assuming the building on the other side of the lower falls, with the tail stock hanging down was the generation portion for the lower dam?? I can't find any information on that, but will continue looking...
Yes the lower dam was built to replace the upper dam that was destroyed twice in short order by floods. What you saw is all that remains of the lower dam.
So, this is the LOWER dam? How far up was/is the upper dam? Also, this was slated to be removed back in 2015-ish but they backed off because of sediment fears?
This is the upper dam. They chose to reduce it rather than remove it. There is a lot of sediment behind it.
Love history! Great share!
The flood from Hurricane Helene took care of removing that Big Hungry Dam. I was wondering about why it was there out in what is the middle of forest now. Maybe it was largely cleared a century ago.
It was built to generate electricity to power Hendersonville. It failed during the Helene flood and damaged the Green River Narrows bedrock as well as destroying many home downstream at the peak of the flood. I witnessed the damage done live and in person in the Green River Cove. Duke Power and Northbrook both declined to remove the dam with concerns of cost. Those costs have been passed on to others down stream. Work needs to be done now on what remains of the dam. I didn't even generate power long before being replaced with a dam further downstream.
By the way Fred, great video!
I big hungry. Really hungry!
Now the dam is mostly gone
I would love to see a photo of it. Can you provide a link?
@@FastFredRuddock There is an excellent UA-cam video posted a few days ago by "The GeoModel" about walking up the Big Hungry River gorge and he stops and looks at the remains of the dam. I was curious about why the dam was there, and I found your video that has excellent background.