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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.
The water elevation behind the dam reached 9 1/2 feet higher than the previous record, set in 1977. By 4 p.m. Sept. 28, after reviewing the structure, TVA said it was "stable and secure."
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 ...
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The stream flows north of Spring City, Tennessee and becomes slack just east of the town at a headland of Watts Bar Lake, an impoundment of the Tennessee River formed by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Dam project. The mouth of the Piney is one of the larger bays of Watts Bar Lake and contains several small islands.
Watts Bar's sport fishing ratings for crappie, black crappie, largemouth bass, and spotted bass are at or near the top in the TVA system. [2] ( The state of Tennessee advises against eating fish caught in certain areas of the lake due to PCB contamination.) [3] The area also provides many opportunities for birdwatching, with an extremely large population of great blue herons, over 120 nesting ...
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