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The main lock at Wilson Dam is 110 feet (34 m) wide by 600 feet (180 m) long. [7] The lock lift is 94 feet (29 m). [7] It is the highest single lift lock east of the Rocky Mountains. [5] An auxiliary lock has two 60 feet (18 m) wide by 300 feet (91 m) long chambers that operate in tandem. Over 3,700 vessels pass through Wilson Dam's locks each ...
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The Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages Wilson Dam, Wilson Lake, and 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of land surrounding the reservoir for the purposes of flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife management, and downstream water quality improvement. Corps staff maintain the dam and outlet works, conduct dam safety ...
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act, which authorized the construction of two nitrate-manufacturing plants and a dam to provide them hydropower. [3] President Wilson chose Muscle Shoals, Alabama as the site of the dam, which when completed in 1924, was named Wilson Dam . [ 4 ]
Wilson Dam impounds Wilson Lake; Pickwick Landing Dam impounds Pickwick Lake; Kentucky Dam impounds Kentucky Lake; Tributary dams and reservoirs include: Apalachia Dam on the Hiwassee River forms Apalachia Reservoir; Blue Ridge Dam dams the Toccoa River, forming Blue Ridge Reservoir; Boone Dam on the South Fork Holston River forms Boone Reservoir
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Wilson Dam (Virginia) This page was last edited on 26 January 2016, at 09:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Wilson Dam; Fossil fuel plants. Coal-fired power plants of the Tennessee Valley Authority ... This page was last edited on 21 December 2024, at 06:09 (UTC).