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Alcoa Lake is the result of the impoundment of Sandy Creek, seven miles southwest of Rockdale in Milam County. At the base of the dam, Sandy Creek joins the East Yegua Creek. Alcoa Lake is owned and operated by the Aluminum Company of America for industrial purposes at the site, and in recent years for recreational use. Construction of the lake ...
A street gutter is a depression that runs parallel to a road and is designed to collect rainwater that flows along the street diverting it into a storm drain. A gutter alleviates water buildup on a street, allows pedestrians to pass without walking through puddles, and reduces the risk of hydroplaning by road vehicles.
Drivers in Alcoa are being asked to use alternate routes after firefighters responded to a fire off of Topside Road.
High Rock Lake, at 15,180 acres (6,140 ha), was the largest lake on the Yadkin at that time. In 1929, the company's name was changed to Alcoa. In 1962, Alcoa built the Tuckertown Dam between High Rock and Narrows Reservoirs. [4] In August 2002, Alcoa temporarily suspended aluminum production at the Badin Works, laying off 377 workers. [6]
Founded in 1908 by William E. Aubuchon [2] in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Aubuchon Hardware is the oldest family-owned and managed hardware store chain in America.With more than 100 stores in New England, Upstate New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, they have been a local mainstay for generations.
Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) is a subsiduaty of Alcoa. AWAC's business is the mining of bauxite , [ 1 ] the extraction of alumina ( aluminium oxide ) and the smelting of aluminium. It has about 25% of the global alumina market.
Millennium Manor is a house in Alcoa, Tennessee. It was built from June 1937 to December, 1946, [1] by William Andrew Nicholson and his wife Fair, who had moved to Alcoa, from Pickens County, Georgia, where William was a mason and carpenter. In 1937 he got a job with the Alcoa plant as a replacement for striking workers.
Former State Route 429 (SR 429), also known as Airbase Road, was a south-to-north secondary highway in Blount County, Tennessee, that was 1.85 miles (3.0 km) long. Its southern terminus was at the Tennessee Air National Guard gate and the northern terminus was with US 129/SR 115 (Airport Highway). The road was decommissioned in 2009 when the ...