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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):
East Tennessee and its mountainous terrain are a maze of rivers controlled by dams. Floods from Hurricane Helene tore through them and caused massive destruction as the water brought down roads ...
Nolichucky Dam is a dam on the Nolichucky River near Greeneville, Tennessee, maintained by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). [1] The dam is located just over 46 miles (74 km) upstream from the mouth of the Nolichucky, and impounds Davy Crockett Lake, [1] [2] which extends 6 miles (9.7 km) upstream from the dam.
Norris Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control structure located on the Clinch River in Anderson County and Campbell County, Tennessee, United States.The dam was the first major project for the Tennessee Valley Authority, which had been created in 1933 to bring economic development to the region and control the rampant flooding that had long plagued the Tennessee Valley. [1]
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 ...
By Oct. 1, the only National Weather Service flood warning in East Tennessee was for areas of Sevier and Knox counties below Douglas Dam. Douglas Lake rose nearly 22 feet in three days between ...
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.
Wilbur Dam was completed in 1912 making it the second oldest dam in the TVA system behind Ocoee Dam No. 1. Wilbur Dam was one of the first major hydroelectric projects in Tennessee, and remains one of the oldest dams in the TVA system. [3] Wilbur Dam is a concrete gravity overflow dam 77 feet (23 m) high and 375 feet (114 m) long, and has a ...