Crystal Lake Vass, NC Damaged from Tropical Storm Chantal Flooding

 July 7th 2025

Central Nc,  Crystal Lake Vass, NC

Tropical Storm Chantal Hit Central Nc on this day with some areas getting 12-15 inches of rain in a short time.  

One lake/dam damaged was Crystal Lake near the town of Vass, NC (Lakeview Community) .

I have fished this lake in the past though the last time may have been last in 2016 where I caught some really nice panfish (Pumpkinseed Bream ) and you can see my blog post here about it.   https://mackinncblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/a-pumpkinseed-kinda-day.html

Tropical Storm Chantal had the waters flooding over the dam.   This Dam has 2 spillways but basically most of it is an earthan dam with Camp Easter Road being on top of the dam. 

Here is a Bing map screenshot of it.

Here is a Picture of the water flowing over the Dam/road on July the 7th

Now here are Pictures of the Road , lake and dam area on August 2 2025 where you can see the water flowing over the road causing severe erosion on the downstream side of the road in several places.

The gates on the spillway have been opened and the Lake is currently drawn down 6-8 ft .

Right here you can see the 4 spillway gates are open.

Very sad,  Hopefully they will fix all of this damage within the next year but it may take longer.

Crystal lake dam damaged

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