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Pickwick Landing Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Hardin County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.The dam is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the 1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to create a continuous navigation channel between the river's mouth and Knoxville, and bring economic development ...
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
The Chicago Area Waterway System (CAWS) is a complex of natural and artificial waterways extending through much of the Chicago metropolitan area, covering approximately 87 miles altogether. It straddles the Chicago Portage and is the sole navigable inland link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River and makes up the northern end of ...
Pickwick Dam (also known as Pickwick Village) is an unincorporated community in Hardin County, Tennessee, United States. Pickwick Dam is located on the Tennessee River south of the Pickwick Landing Dam. [2] Pickwick Dam has a post office with ZIP code 38365. [3] [4] Pickwick Landing State Park is located in Pickwick Dam.
Pickwick Lake has excellent sportfishing areas, including the Wilson Dam tailwater at the upper end of the reservoir, noted for record-size smallmouth bass and catfish. Another favorite spot is the discharge basin at Colbert Fossil Plant west of Sheffield, Alabama , where the warm water discharged from the power plant attracts fish during cold ...
Location mi km Destinations Notes; Hardin: Pickwick Dam: 0.0: 0.0: SR 57 – Memphis, Iuka: Southern terminus SR 226 north (Airport Road) – Olivet: Southern terminus of SR 226; provides access to Savannah-Hardin County Airport: Savannah: US 64 Truck (Water Street) US 64 west / SR 69 north (Main Street/SR 15 west) – Crump, Adamsville
The nearly 8100 major dams in the United States in 2006. The National Inventory of Dams defines a major dam as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
This category is for articles about dams in the U.S. state of Illinois ... Lock and Dam Number 52; Lock and Dam Number 53; M. Melvin Price Locks and Dam; Montgomery ...