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The Tennessee Valley Authority operates the Tennessee River system to provide a wide range of public benefits: year-round navigation, flood damage reduction, affordable electricity, improved water quality and water supply, recreation, and economic growth.
The Tennessee River's route northerly through Tennessee defines the boundary between two of Tennessee's Grand Divisions: Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway , a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project providing navigation on the Tombigbee River and a link to the Port of Mobile , enters the Tennessee River near the ...
This is an incomplete list of cities, towns, and communities along the Tennessee River and its branches in the United States. [1] Currently only the more major cities and towns are mentioned. Alphabetically
Knoxville residents can rest assured: Even as Douglas Dam spills record levels of water into the French Broad River − and then into the Tennessee River − water levels around the city will ...
The dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second, on Sept. 29 to pass the water down the river. Though there were scattered evacuations below the dam, Sheehan said, there ...
The dams disrupt the flow of a river, even as they help prevent flooding and produce clean energy. Norris Dam holds back the largest tributary reservoir in the Tennessee River watershed, a major ...
Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States.The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river.
Articles pertaining to dams in operation, under construction or planning on the Tennessee River in the southeastern United States. Pages in category "Dams on the Tennessee River" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.