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The Tennessee Valley Authority operates the Tennessee River system to provide a wide range of public benefits: year-round navigation, flood damage reduction, affordable electricity, improved water quality and water supply, recreation, and economic growth.
The Tennessee River is an important part of the Great Loop, the recreational circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water. The main channel is accessible to recreational watercraft at over 200 public access points along the river's course. [18]
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (red) The locks and dams (L&D) along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234-mile (377 km) artificial waterway built in the 20th century from the Tennessee River to the junction of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River system near Demopolis, Alabama, United States.
The literal floodgates are open all along the Tennessee River as it moves Helene's floodwater from the Smokies to the Ohio River. Why Knoxville shouldn't worry about rising Tennessee River levels ...
Wilson Dam is located at river mile 259.4 of the Tennessee River, spanning the river in a roughly north–south orientation between Florence and Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama. [4] The dam is 137 feet (42 m) high and 4,541 feet (1,384 m) long. [5] The dam cost almost $47 million (equivalent to $663 million in 2023 [1]). [6]
Around 1.3 million gallons of water were pouring over the dam each second at 11 p.m., according to the Tennessee Valley Authority. For context, the peak daily water flow of Niagara Falls is around ...
The app tracks live water levels on either side of TVA's dams and how much water is discharging through the dams each hour. It also has maps of TVA's dams and reservoirs, daily water release ...
Fort Loudoun Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Loudon County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in the early 1940s as part of a unified plan to provide electricity and flood control in the Tennessee Valley and create a continuous 652-mile (1,049 km) navigable river channel from ...