Unlike other dams along the Catawba, the one south of Mountain Island Lake doesn’t have flood gates. Water can only move through the dam’s spillway or hydroelectric turbines, Jones said.

People are being told not to swim in the McDowell Creek Cove of Mountain Island Lake in Mecklenburg County after partially treated wastewater was discharged into the lake. An advisory issued ...

Flooding along the Catawba River near Mountain Island Lake damaged at least 170 structures, including homes and outbuildings, during the storm, which made landfall as a category 4 hurricane in ...