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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
Tims Ford Lake is a reservoir run by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in southern middle Tennessee. The lake encompasses 10,700 acres (16.7 square miles) and approximately 250 miles of shoreline. The lake encompasses 10,700 acres (16.7 square miles) and approximately 250 miles of shoreline.
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):
The Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.
— Tennessee Valley Authority (@TVAnews) September 29, 2024 The reservoirs, like Douglas Lake and Watauga Lake, are held back by TVA dams before the water rushes into rivers and communities ...
At full pool, Watauga's elevation is the highest of all TVA lakes at 1,959 feet (597 m) above sea level. Watauga Lake is regularly released by TVA schedule into Wilbur Reservoir (Wilbur Lake) and impounded by the TVA Wilbur Dam. Water levels in TVA Watauga Reservoir vary about 9 feet (2.7 m) in normal years to provide for seasonal flood storage ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority is telling the public to stay off Douglas Lake near Dandridge as it prepares to deploy a 4,000-foot floating barrier to catch a one-square-mile patch of debris from ...
Its reservoir has a storage capacity of 1,049,000 acre⋅ft (1,294,000 dam 3), [1] with 162,000 acre⋅ft (200,000 dam 3) reserved for flood control. The reservoir is the most stable reservoir in the TVA system, fluctuating just 2 feet (0.61 m) per year. [4] Guntersville Dam is serviced by a 110-by-600-foot (34 by 183 m) navigation lock. The ...