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Dam Break in Georgia: Sadness and Joy at Toccoa Falls

K. Neill Foster and Eric Mills

Paperback, Published by Horizon Books Publishers, July 1996
ISBN: 0889650233

See also
Voices on the Cross
This book is out of print but often available as a second hand book on amazon.com
A true story about the flooding disaster of Toccoa Falls College on November 6, 1977. A moving story telling of the horror and subsequent victory, and of the people involved.

Kelly Barnes Dam, located above the Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, failed in the early morning hours of November 6, 1977. The campus was inundated within minutes. One dormitory had 8 ft of water on the ground floor. A trailer park associated with the college was destroyed as 10 ft of water rushed through it. Thirty-nine deaths and $2.8 million in damages occurred during this flash flood.

Looking across left to right from downstream end of dormitory
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.