{"id":41772,"date":"2025-11-09T03:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/41772\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T03:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:06:10","slug":"polk-county-carter-lake-dam-compromised-officials-urge-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/41772\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County: Carter Lake Dam compromised; officials urge evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/579178513_1338773751630227_7478175526683892546_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Carter Lake Dam Compromised <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">CAMDEN, Texas &#8211; Officials are urging residents to evacuate after the Carter Lake Dam in Camden was found to be compromised Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Carter Lake Dam compromised <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The dam was found to have damage to the embankment, the Polk County Emergency Management Office announced Saturday evening. The dam is being assessed for the risk of a potential breach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Residents south of the dam, specifically along Henry Darden Rd, Marie Rd, Community Dr, Bo Peep, Herb Collins Rd, and Girard, may be in the path of potential flooding.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">All residents in the zone circled in the picture above are urged to evacuate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Persons evacuating are encouraged to first seek shelter with friends or family. Dunbar Gym, located at 1103 Dunbar Avenue, Livingston, is available as a shelter for those who cannot make other arrangements.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Details were limited at the time of publishing. The post said updates would be added as the situation develops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this report came from Polk County Emergency Management.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/polk-county\/camden\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Camden<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Carter Lake Dam Compromised CAMDEN, Texas &#8211; Officials are urging residents to evacuate after the Carter Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25239,56,58,57,223,6215,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-41772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-camden","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-headlines","11":"tag-houston-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-polk-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}