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Kentucky Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.The dam is the lowermost of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s and early 1940s to improve navigation on the lower part of the river and reduce flooding on the lower ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority, ... the Tennessee River could reach or slightly exceed summer levels, ... Kentucky Dam: 636,285 gallons per second.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Kentucky.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Pickwick Landing Dam impounds Pickwick Lake; Kentucky Dam impounds Kentucky Lake; Tributary dams and reservoirs include: Apalachia Dam on the Hiwassee River forms Apalachia Reservoir; Blue Ridge Dam dams the Toccoa River, forming Blue Ridge Reservoir; Boone Dam on the South Fork Holston River forms Boone Reservoir
Ahead of next week's big thaw, when the 6.5 to 10 inches of snow that fell Jan. 15 on East Tennessee will finally melt, the Tennessee Valley Authority is monitoring how runoff may affect river levels.
The Nolichucky Dam, a non-power producing TVA dam near Greeneville, Tennessee, was at active risk of failure beginning Sept. 27 as a record-smashing 1.3 million gallons of water poured through and ...
The lower Big Sandy is impounded by the Kentucky Dam project of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA); it forms the biggest single embayment on Kentucky Lake. The head of the embayment is the site of the town of Big Sandy and nearby is a major "dewatering area". This is an almost flat area (superficially resembling a tidal flat) which is flooded ...
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration .