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Shortly after the Nolichucky and Pigeon rivers flow into the French Broad River, Douglas Dam impounds the river to form Douglas Lake. The dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons ...
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 ...
This lake is located only a few miles from the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area, and also the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Douglas Dam was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority at a record pace from February 2, 1942, through February 19, 1943, to provide hydroelectric power and to control flooding downstream in the Tennessee River Valley.
Norris Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control structure located on the Clinch River in Anderson County and Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.The dam was the first major project for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which had been created in 1933 to bring economic development to the region and control the rampant flooding that had long plagued the Tennessee Valley. [1]
The Tennessee Valley Authority, which owns and operates nine dams on the Tennessee River, is spilling massive amounts of water through the dams each second to pass the floodwaters of Helene along ...
Douglas Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the French Broad River in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in record time in the early 1940s to meet emergency energy demands at the height of World War II .
Location: Grainger / Hamblen / Jefferson / Hawkins counties, Tennessee, United States: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Reservoir: Primary inflows: Holston River: Primary outflows: Holston River: Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: Tennessee Valley Authority: Surface area: 28,780 acres (11,650 ha): Average depth: 30 ft (9.1 m): Water volume: 749,400 acre⋅ft (924,400,000 m 3): Shore length ...
Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority , which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed.