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The Tennessee Valley Authority operates the Tennessee River system to provide a wide range of public benefits: year-round navigation, flood damage reduction, affordable electricity, improved water quality and water supply, recreation, and economic growth.
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.
The construction of TVA's Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River and the Corps of Engineers' Barkley Dam on the Cumberland River led to the development of associated lakes, and the creation of an area called the Land Between the Lakes.
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 ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority, which owns and operates nine dams on the Tennessee River, is spilling massive amounts of water through the dams each second to pass the floodwaters of Helene along ...
The dams disrupt the flow of a river, even as they help prevent flooding and produce clean energy. Norris Dam holds back the largest tributary reservoir in the Tennessee River watershed, a major ...
List of dams and reservoirs of the Tennessee River; B. Boone Dam; C. Calderwood Dam; Center Hill Lake; Cheatham Lock and Dam; Cherokee Dam; Chickamauga Dam; Chilhowee ...
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.