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Watauga Dam is an earth-and-rock dam 318 feet (97 m) high and 900 feet (270 m) long, and has a generating capacity of 57,600 kilowatts. [5] The dam's fixed-crest morning glory spillway has a maximum discharge of 73,200 cubic feet per second (2,070 m 3 /s).
Wilbur Dam is the site of first hydroelectric dam constructed in Tennessee (beginning in 1909), going online with power production and distribution in 1912. [12] Wilbur Dam was constructed on the Watauga River by the former Tennessee Electric Power Company, a privately owned utility purchased by the TVA in the late 1930s. [12]
Construction of Watauga Dam began in early 1942 but was curtailed later that year in favor of other World War II building efforts. Work on TVA Watauga Dam resumed in 1946, and finished at the end of 1948, impounding both the Watauga River and Elk River for the purposes of flood, hydropower generation and downstream navigation on the Tennessee River and Reservoir system.
Wilbur Dam on the Watauga River impounds Wilbur Reservoir; External links. TVA Recreation Interactive Map This page was last edited on 12 November 2024, at 23:03 (UTC
Water releases from Douglas Dam, Watauga Dam and Wilbur Dam – two river miles downstream from the Watauga Dam – were scheduled to decline by Oct. 3, according to TVA data.
In 1906 it was purchased by the Watauga Baptist Association, which renamed it Watauga Academy. It operated under that name until 1948, when the town was inundated by the formation of Watauga Lake. [11] Butler was the birthplace of U.S. Congressmen B. Carroll Reece of Tennessee and Robert R. Butler of Oregon (grandson of the town's namesake).
The Watauga River in Elizabethton reached 5 feet above its flood level in its highest level since 1940. ... TVA's Watauga Dam in Carter County broke its previous water level record by 3 feet.
Watauga Dam; Watts Bar Dam; Wheeler Dam; Wilbur Dam; Wilson Dam; Fossil fuel plants. Coal-fired power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority Name Units Capacity (MWe)