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. The dam impounds the 36,240-acre (14,670 ha) Chickamauga Lake and feeds into Nickajack Lake. The dam and associated infrastructure were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
Chickamauga Dam is named for the Chickamaugas, a politically detached branch of the Cherokee whose chief village was located just north of the dam site during the 18th century.[2] The tribe's name has also been applied to several streams in the Chattanooga area, as well as an important American Civil War battle and a sandbar that existed at the dam site prior to its construction.[3]
^ abcd"Chickamauga Dam". National Performance of Dams Program, National Inventory of Dams. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 2012-12-14. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
^TVA: Chickamauga Reservoir Archived 2015-08-22 at the Wayback Machine fact sheet, TVA website
^Tennessee Valley Authority, The Chickamauga Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Chickamauga Project, Technical Report No. 6 (Knoxville, Tenn.: Tennessee Valley Authority, 1942), 1-12, 41-43, 49, 246.
The ChickamaugaDam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee...
Chickamauga Lake is a reservoir in the United States along the Tennessee River created when the ChickamaugaDam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
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reservoir created by Nickajack Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Nickajack Dam to ChickamaugaDam, passing through the city...
reservoirs for more than 13,000 recreational craft each year. The ChickamaugaDam, located just upstream from Chattanooga, is projected to have a new...
base of ChickamaugaDam. In the late 1950s, however, boils began to appear in the water below Hales Bar Dam, and an investigation showed the dam was again...
of the river. The dam is the technical boundary between the 39,090-acre (15,820 ha) Watts Bar Lake— which it impounds— and Chickamauga Lake, which stretches...
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legislative priority—funding for his district's decaying lock at the ChickamaugaDam. In 2006, the eight-year, $349 million project was approved, but Wamp...
county. It is also an important link to the Tennessee Valley Authority ChickamaugaDam, which the highway crosses on the Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge. It also...
all the way to the base of ChickamaugaDam in Chattanooga. Tennessee State Highway 156 passes just south of Nickajack Dam, and Interstate 24 passes a...
Authority Act (1933) which prompted the construction of the ChickamaugaDam. After the dam was built in 1933, it helped to regulate the water levels of...
operations. At this point the river interfaces with the impoundment of ChickamaugaDam (located in Chattanooga, Tennessee). Many marshes and wetlands surround...
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport and crosses the Tennessee River on the ChickamaugaDam. Accessible from the northbound lanes at this interchange is Hamilton...
flow into the Hiwassee River near where the Interstate crosses. The ChickamaugaDam, located downstream from this section of the Hiwassee on the Tennessee...
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Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located in northern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee, preserves the sites of two major battles of...
the wettest first three months of any year on record, causing the ChickamaugaDam and Watts Bar Lake to climb about 1.5 ft (0.46 m) above normal summertime...
(21-km) riverside path which parallels the Tennessee River from the ChickamaugaDam to downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is part of the Tennessee Riverpark...
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Riverwalk, which follows the banks of the Tennessee River from the ChickamaugaDam to Ross's Landing in downtown Chattanooga. The main campus consists...
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