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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.
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.
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 ...
J. Percy Priest Dam: Stones River: Hydroelectric 28 United States Army Corps of Engineers: 1967 Melton Hill Dam: Clinch River: Hydroelectric 79 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1963 Nickajack Dam: Tennessee River: Hydroelectric 105 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1967 Norris Dam: Clinch River: Hydroelectric 110 Tennessee Valley Authority: 1936 Ocoee Dam ...
Watts Bar's sport fishing ratings for crappie, black crappie, largemouth bass, and spotted bass are at or near the top in the TVA system. [3] ( The state of Tennessee advises against eating fish caught in certain areas of the lake due to PCB contamination.) [4] The area also provides many opportunities for birdwatching, with an extremely large population of great blue herons, over 120 nesting ...
It is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and is primarily fed by the Toccoa River. Blue Ridge Lake was created by the completion of Blue Ridge Dam and has approximately 60 miles (97 km) of shoreline and a flood storage capacity of 68,500 acre⋅ft (84,500 dam 3). The lake's levels fluctuate by about 20 feet (6.1 m) in a typical year.
Chickamauga Lake is a reservoir in the United States along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940. The lake stretches from Watts Bar Dam at mile 529.9 (853 km) to Chickamauga Dam at mile 471.0 (758 km) making the lake 58.9 miles (94.8 km) long.
Blue Ridge Dam; Boone Dam; Cedar Creek Dam; Cedar Dam; ... Watts Bar Nuclear Plant: 2 2,332 Rhea County, Tennessee ... 201MW – Caney River Wind Farm, Elk County ...