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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.
It also has maps of TVA's dams and reservoirs, daily water release schedules and history of the TVA system of lakes. How Knox County recommends flood prevention.
By 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. Sept. 29, according to the latest available data, this is how much water TVA was sending through its Tennessee River dams, ordered from furthest upstream to furthest downstream:
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): Fort Loudoun Dam impounds Fort Loudoun Lake; Watts Bar Dam impounds Watts Bar Lake
Nuclear power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority Name Units Capacity (MWe) Location Year of commission Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant: 3 3,775 Limestone County, Alabama: 1974 Sequoyah Nuclear Plant: 2 2,333 Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee: 1981 Watts Bar Nuclear Plant: 2 2,332 Rhea County, Tennessee: 1996
Ahead of next week's big thaw, when the 6.5 to 10 inches of snow that fell Jan. 15 on East Tennessee will finally melt, the Tennessee Valley Authority is monitoring how runoff may affect river levels.
Tennessee Valley Authority: 1959 2018 Watts Bar Steam Plant: Rhea County, Tennessee: 267 Tennessee Valley Authority 1942 1982 John Sevier Fossil Plant: Hawkins County, Tennessee: 880 Tennessee Valley Authority 1957 2012 Johnsonville Fossil Plant: New Johnsonville, Tennessee: 1500 Tennessee Valley Authority 1951 2017 Bull Run Fossil Plant [13 ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.