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Around 1.3 million gallons of water were pouring over the dam each second at 11 p.m., according to the Tennessee Valley Authority. For context, the peak daily water flow of Niagara Falls is around ...
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):
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.
Dam [1] Height Year removed Location Watercourse Watershed Notes Nashville Zoo Dam Weir 1 4 ft (1.2 m) 2017 Nashville: Cathy Jo Branch: Cumberland River: Owned by the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere.
Norris Dam holds back the largest tributary reservoir in the Tennessee River watershed, a major holding body for rainfall. Weir dams help control the flow of water downstream from large dams.
J. Percy Priest Dam is a dam in north central Tennessee at river mile 6.8 of the Stones River, a tributary of the Cumberland. It is located about ten miles (16 km) east of downtown Nashville . The reservoir behind the dam is Percy Priest Lake .
The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in record time in the early 1940s to meet emergency energy demands at the height of World War II. Douglas Dam is a straight reinforced concrete gravity-type dam 1705 feet (520 m) long and 202 feet (62 m) high, impounding the 28,420-acre (11,500 ha) Douglas Lake .
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 ...