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Douglas Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the French Broad River in Sevier County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which built the dam in record time in the early 1940s to meet emergency energy demands at the height of World War II.
[1] [2] Douglas Dam is located just over 32 miles (51 km) upstream from the French Broad River's confluence with the Holston River in Knoxville, to form the Tennessee River. The Douglas Lake reservoir inundates about a 40-mile (64 km) stretch of the French Broad River between the Douglas Dam and the Irish Bottoms area near Newport.
SR 338 turns south and becomes concurrent with SR 66 to pass through a business district before leaving SR 66 and turning northeast onto Douglas Dam Road and leaving Sevierville. It continues northeast through farmland to pass through Alder Branch , where it becomes Old State Highway 66, before turning north and crossing the French Broad River ...
As of Oct. 2, the debris patch was one-square-mile large and moving one mile a day downstream toward Douglas Dam, TVA said in a news release. Helene debris in Douglas Lake could be hazardous.
The Nolichucky Dam, a non-power producing TVA dam near Greeneville, Tennessee, was at active risk of failure beginning Sept. 27 as a record-smashing 1.3 million gallons of water poured through and ...
The river enters the slack waters of Douglas Lake, which was created by the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam in Sevier County, approximately 32 miles (51 km) upstream from the river's mouth. Near Sevierville , at Kodak , the French Broad River receives the flow of the Little Pigeon River , which drains much of the Tennessee section of ...
By Oct. 1, the only National Weather Service flood warning in East Tennessee was for areas of Sevier and Knox counties below Douglas Dam. Douglas Lake rose nearly 22 feet in three days between ...
SR 139 was established around 1950 running between US 25W northwest of Kodak and SR 66 near Douglas Dam. After I-40 was completed in 1975, SR 66 was relocated onto a new route between Sevierville and I-40 and a concurrency with I-40 route, and SR 139 was truncated to the new route of SR 66.