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The ford was used until about 1885 when the Tims Ford Bridge was constructed across the river. The massive dam and reservoir construction program that was undertaken by TVA following its creation in 1933, required the purchase of over 1,000,000 acres (4,000 km 2 ) of land for the creation of 34 reservoirs in five of the seven states in the ...
Ocoee Dam No. 2 on the Ocoee River impounds Ocoee Lake No. 2; Ocoee Dam No. 3 on the Ocoee River impounds Ocoee Lake No. 3; South Holston Dam dams the South Fork Holston River, forming South Holston Lake; Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River forms Tellico Lake; Tims Ford Dam on the Elk River impounds Tims Ford Lake
At Buffalo Mountain in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, TVA operates three wind turbines with a combined generation capacity of 2 MW and purchases the output of 15 additional wind turbines owned by Invenergy that have a combined capacity of 27 MW. As of 2013, the agency had purchased agreements from power generated from wind farms outside its service ...
Among TVA's biggest fans are fishers who can now catch trout downstream from Norris Dam. Here's why 'Healing': Why TVA moved 3,200 tons of rock to restore an island and its aquatic ecosystem
Tennessee Valley Authority: 1938 Raccoon Mountain Facility: Tennessee River: Pumped storage hydro: 1,652 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1978 South Holston Dam: Holston River: Hydroelectric 44 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1950 Tims Ford Dam: Elk River: Hydroelectric 36 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1970 Watauga Dam: Watauga River: Hydroelectric 66 ...
Only a few miles below Elk River Dam is the beginning of slack water (Tims Ford Lake) caused by the Tims Ford Dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The slack water extends upstream to the vicinity of Estill Springs. It is then bridged by U.S. Route 41A.
Cowans Ford Dam and Lake Norman – Duke Power; Falls Lake – USACE; Fontana Dam – Fontana Lake; on the Little Tennessee River; finished in 1944 by the TVA; Gaston Dam – Lake Gaston; on the Roanoke River; built by the Virginia Electric Power Company (VEPCO) High Rock Lake – on the Yadkin River; built in 1927 by USACE and operated today ...
Awalt, flooded by Tims Ford Lake. Butler, flooded by Watauga Lake. [40] Loyston, flooded by Norris Lake. Willow Grove, flooded by Dale Hollow Lake. Morganton, flooded by Tellico Dam. Tuskegee, flooded by Tellico Dam.