Special Order 191 created the USACE Nashville District Aug. 18, 1888, to construct a series of locks and dams on the Cumberland River in Tennessee and Kentucky. By 1924, ...

The French Broad flows through four counties in Western North Carolina from its headwaters in Transylvania County, eventually spilling into the Tennessee River. Map of dams TVA proposed in the ...

Covering the wall facing the engineers’ workstations is a wall-to-wall digital map the size of a classroom chalkboard, displaying data for the entirety of TVA’s Tennessee River system that includes 49 ...

Morning shad-spawn bites on Tennessee River reservoirs can be epic, says Major League Fishing Pro David Walker (pictured). But to catch bass all day, he cautions, you’ll need a secondary pattern ...

The construction of multiple power-generation dams on the Tennessee River created a string of world-class ... Lowrance Pro David Walker suggests looking for islands on your fish-finder’s lake map.

In 2011, water rose so rapidly that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had to blast a hole in levees along Mississippi River farmland in rural southern Missouri in a last-ditch effort to avoid an ...

WESTERN Ky. (KFVS) - The Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River is open and spilling water after days of rain. According to the Tennessee Valley Authority on Sunday, February 16, ...

Federal agencies will take a new look at the findings of a four-year, $55 million federal study completed in 2020 that rejected calls to tear down the four lower Snake River dams. A coalition of ...

Nolichucky Dam near Greeneville, Tennessee, moved nearly twice the water flow of the iconic Niagara Falls. According to TVA, the Nolichucky River rose at two feet per hour on Friday, September 27.

GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The Tennessee Valley Authority announced its plan to deal with the record-breaking amounts of rainfall following Hurricane Helene. Because of Hurricane Helene, there has ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) dam systems were put to the test during Helene. Following the severe weather, teams have worked to see which dams are safe and ...

After a day of heavy rainfall in the Great Smoky Mountains, the Nolichucky River was rising at 2 feet per hour. Around 1.3 million gallons of water were pouring over the dam each second at 11 p.m ...