The Cherokee Project


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Cherokee is the tenth major hydro project authorized for construction of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the seventh to be completed. The dam is located at mile 52.3 on the Holston River which unites with the French Broad River just above Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. This main tributary project was the first of several TVA dams authorized under World War II emergency program and constructed on an emergency basis. Although operated primarily for power during the war emergency, Cherokee forms an integral unit in the overall system of water control projects in the Tennessee Valley, and under normal multiple purpose operation aids in reducing main-river flood stages and in stabilizing low water flows.




A Study of Sediment


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The Fort Loudoun Project


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Fort Loudon Dam was the last of seven main-river dams proposed for construction in TVA's report to Congress dated March 31, 1936, and is the upper link in the chain of dams for navigation envisioned in the TVA Act. A record of the more important facts concerning planning, design, construction, cost, and initial operations of this major unit in the integrated water-control system is contained herein as Technical Report No. 11. It has been prepared from detailed reports in the files of TVA and has been edited to present special coverage to new or unprecedented procedures with relatively less emphasis on standard practices of engineering and construction.







The Pickwick Landing Project


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This report is published for the purpose of giving to the engineering profession and others interested in river-control projects the important and useful facts about the planning and construction of the Pickwick Landing Dam and Reservoir, located on the Tennessee River in western Tennessee near the Mississippi-Alabama line and constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, an agency of the United States Government.