Big Moccasin Creek at Gate City

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What floods at each level

• 19.5 ft

  Ground level around the gas station at the intersection of Hwy 23 and Wadlow Gap Hwy.

• 16.5 ft

  Water may begin to reach the floor of the church on Old Nickelsville Road.

• 14.5 ft

  Dwellings on the stream side of Old Nickelsville Road immediately downstream from the church may begin to take water. Water reaches the surface level of the bridge on Gillenwater Loop near Nickelsville Hwy. The lowest ball field at the ball park on Filter Plant Ford may begin to flood.

• 11.5 ft

  Filter Plant Ford road is flooded where it meets the small bridge to the construction storage facility, just upstream from the train bridge. Driveway access to the parking lot of a church on Old Nickelsville Road near East Jackson Street is flooded.

• 9.5 ft

  Filter Plant Ford road beneath the train bridge begins to flood. A parking lot at the ballpark a half mile upstream from the train bridge begins to flood. Low spots along Old Nickelsville Road begin to flood.

• 7 ft

  The surface of a small bridge just upstream from the train bridge and leading to a construction storage facility, is flooded.

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