's Wrightsville Dam reached full capacity on Tuesday evening, officials announced - meaning that the spillways could be used for the first time since the dam was built in 1935, and send more water down into the flood-ravaged capital, Montpelier.Torrential rain overnight on Sunday has caused the worst flooding since Hurricane Irene in 2011, with only the great Vermont flood of 1927 worse before then., and on Tuesday evening city officials began giving updates every two hours, as residents watched the dam in fear.
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