Knoxville, TN (WOKI) UPDATE: Fort Loudon Marina is now the second marina to see a dock collapse after East Tennessee saw heavy snowfall early this week.
Officials with the Lenoir City Fire Department say several agencies responded to the collapse to conduct evacuations and that no one was injured.
Lenoir City’s mayor is urging people not to come to the marina to sightsee, allowing emergency personnel to do their work.
Sun Life’s Concord Marina in West Knox County also saw a collapse due to snow. People are still not allowed near that dock, “Dock D” at Concord. Officials are asking people to avoid the area while crews work the collapse.
ORIGINAL STORY: A boat dock at Sun Life’s Concord Marina in West Knox County is the latest casualty of severe winter weather in East Tennessee.
Officials with the marina say heavy snow is responsible for collapsing the top of one of the docks there Monday.
Officials report the collapse of “Dock D” damaged some of the boats moored at that location; about 25 boats were moored at Dock D.
According to officials, repairing or replacing the boats are the owners’ responsibility. They add that, at this time, no one is being let near the dock as repair crews will need to wait for warmer weather before working to repair the dock.
