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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.
One non-power TVA dam narrowly avoided failure during the flooding after Helene: ... Fort Loudoun Dam: 568,018 gallons per second. Watts Bar Dam: 549,429 gallons per second. Chickamauga Dam ...
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 ...
Little Bear Creek Dam; Lost Creek Dam; Melton Hill Dam; Nickajack Dam; Nolichucky Dam; Normandy Dam; Norris Dam; Nottely Dam; Ocoee Dams 1, 2, 3; Pickwick Landing Dam; Pin Oak Dam; Pine Dam; Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant; Redbud Dam; South Holston Dam; Sycamore Dam; Tellico Dam; Tims Ford Dam; Upper Bear Creek Dam; Watauga Dam; Watts ...
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 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1948 Watts Bar Dam: Tennessee River: Hydroelectric 182 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1942 Wilbur Dam: Watauga River ...
Blue Ridge Dam is a hydraulic earth-fill type dam 167 feet (51 m) high and 1,000 feet (300 m) long, and has a generating capacity of 22 megawatts. [2] The dam's gate-controlled saddle spillway— which is separated from the main dam by a small hill— can discharge up to 55,000 cubic feet (1,600 m 3 ) of water per second.
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The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre (7.2 km²) site in Rhea County, Tennessee , near Spring City , between Chattanooga and Knoxville .