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The TVA established the stairway of nine dams and locks that turned the Tennessee River into a 652-mile-long river highway. Dams and reservoirs on the main stem of the river include the following (listed from the furthest upstream to the furthest downstream):
Fort Loudoun Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652-mile (1,049 km) navigable river channel from ...
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 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 Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley ...
Hales Bar Dam was a hydroelectric dam once located on the Tennessee River in Marion County, Tennessee, United States.The Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company began building the dam on October 17, 1905, and completed it on November 11, 1913, making Hales Bar one of the first major multipurpose dams and one of the first major dams to be built across a navigable channel in the United States.
Watauga Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control dam on the Watauga River in Carter County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority , which built the dam in the 1940s as part of efforts to control flooding in the Tennessee River watershed.
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.