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It is located in Franklin and Coffee counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [4] At its deepest, the lake reaches 50 feet (15 m) (by the Elk River Dam.) Full pool elevation is 960 feet-mean sea level and winter pool elevation is 957 feet-mean sea level. [1] Fishing is a popular sport on the reservoir with 4 fishing piers.
Fort Loudoun Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652-mile (1,049 km) navigable river channel from ...
Fort Loudoun Lake is a reservoir in east Tennessee on the upper Tennessee River, extending about 50 miles (80 km) along the river upstream from Fort Loudoun Dam, at Lenoir City, to Knoxville. Fort Loudoun Reservoir takes its name from the 18th-century British fort built on a nearby site during the French and Indian War. The fort was named for ...
Since the lake has a greater fish density than most reservoirs maintained by the TVA, it has become one of the most popular for anglers in the East Tennessee region. [9] In 2019, Cherokee Lake was ranked #20 by Bassmaster of the top 25 bass fishing lakes in the Southeastern United States. [10]
The literal floodgates are open all along the Tennessee River as it moves Helene's floodwater from the Smokies to the Ohio River. Why Knoxville shouldn't worry about rising Tennessee River levels ...
According to the 2004 TVA River and Reservoir Operations Study, Watauga Lake is approximately 16.3 mi (26.2 km) long, with 104.9 mi (168.8 km) of shoreline. At the TVA summertime water level target "full pool", the lake surface covers 6,430 acres (26 km²) and the estimated depth of Watauga Lake is 265 feet (81 m) at the dam.
J. Percy Priest Lake is a reservoir in north central part of Tennessee. It is formed by J. Percy Priest Dam , located between miles six and seven of the Stones River . The dam (easily visible from Interstate 40 ) is located about 10 miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville and impounds a lake 42 mi (68 km) long.
The lake, which is about 230 miles from Nashville, spans five East Tennessee counties — Anderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger and Union and is situated in the Clinch and Powell Valleys.