Philpott Lake flowed over its spillway for the first time in the dam's history early on May 22, 2020. (Chris Powell / U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) BASSETT, Va. – All the recent rain we’ve ...

For the first time, the pool of Philpott Lake has filled past the crest elevation of the dam's spillway. That happened in the wake of heavy rainfall this week over Philpott Lake watershed ...

So he turned to Philpott Reservoir, a 2,900-acre lake he heard about in his youth. "Once I started kayaking, I fell in love," he said.