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The Tennessee River's route northerly through Tennessee defines the boundary between two of Tennessee's Grand Divisions: Middle and West Tennessee. The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway , a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project providing navigation on the Tombigbee River and a link to the Port of Mobile , enters the Tennessee River near the ...
A large paper mill (once part of Champion International Paper and now the Blue Ridge Paper Company) in Canton was the primary source of considerable dioxin and particulate matter pollution discharged into the Pigeon River. The pollution situation in the river became a minor issue in the campaign for the 1988 Presidential election.
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
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation says it needs to shut down his and his mother’s Clay County operations to prevent further pollution from manure running off into nearby ...
In addition there seems to be a number of effects on ecological systems throughout the United States. In the state of Tennessee, one of the key effects of global warming seems to be the radical changes to the geological composition as well as wildlife health of the Ohio-Tennessee Basin. [2] Some of the changes to the Ohio-Tennessee Basin include:
Currently, drought conditions are the worst in four western Middle Tennessee counties, west of Interstate 65 near the Tennessee River. Water continues to flow at Duck River in Centerville, Tenn ...
A nursing home in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, near the state border with Kentucky, was evacuated out of an abundance of caution, and water rescues were ongoing around the Hurley, Virginia, area.
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 ...