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Douglas Dam is located 32 miles (51 km) above the mouth of the French Broad. The area is a geological border between the Foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains (which rise to the south) and the Appalachian Ridge-and-Valley range .
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.
Blue Ridge Dam dams the Toccoa River, forming Blue Ridge Reservoir; Boone Dam on the South Fork Holston River forms Boone Reservoir; Chatuge Dam dams the Hiwassee River to form Chatuge Reservoir; Cherokee Dam on the Holston River forms Cherokee Lake; Douglas Dam on the French Broad River impounds Douglas Lake; Elk River Dam on the Elk River ...
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 river enters the slack waters of Douglas Lake, which was created by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam in Sevier County, approximately 32 miles (51 km) upstream from the river's mouth. Near Sevierville , at Kodak , the French Broad River receives the flow of the Little Pigeon River , which drains much of the Tennessee section of ...
Dandridge is located south of the center of Jefferson County at (36.028493, -83.424010 The town is situated along the northern bank of the Douglas Lake impoundment of the French Broad River , approximately 45 miles (72 km) upstream by river from its confluence with the Holston and Tennessee rivers at Knoxville , and approximately 12 miles (19 ...
Cherokee Dam: Holston River: Hydroelectric 136 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1941 Chickamauga Dam: Tennessee River: Hydroelectric 119 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1940 Cordell Hull Dam Cumberland River: Hydroelectric 100 United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1973 Douglas Dam: French Broad River: Hydroelectric 111 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1943 ...
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a 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).