Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States. The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length 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 from the dam's tailwaters southward to Chattanooga.
Watts Bar Dam is named for Watt Island, a sandbar located at the dam site prior to the dam's construction.[3]
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^"Hydroelectric Plants in Tennessee". IndustCards. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
^Tennessee Valley Authority, The Watts Bar Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Watts Bar Project, Technical Report No. 9 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1949), 1-11, 39-47.
WattsBarDam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States. The dam is one of nine dams on the...
72.4 miles (116.5 km) to WattsBarDam (35°37′15″N 84°46′55″W / 35.62083°N 84.78194°W / 35.62083; -84.78194 (WattsBarDam)), near Spring City, Tennessee...
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when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940. The lake stretches from WattsBarDam at mile 529.9 (853 km)...
present site of WattsBar Nuclear Plant and WattsBarDam. The plant was the first coal-fired power plant constructed by TVA. The WattsBar Steam Plant consisted...
finished in 1948 by the TVA WattsBarDam — WattsBar Lake; on the Tennessee River; finished in 1942 by the TVA Walterhill Dam — Walterhill Floodplain State...
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reservoir stretches for 59 miles (95 km) from Chickamauga Dam to the base of WattsBarDam, and includes parts of Hamilton, Bradley, McMinn, Rhea, and...
continues north and has another intersection with SR 304 before crossing WattsBar Lake and entering Kingston, immediately passing by Fort Southwest Point...
concurrently with SR 304. It then crosses WattsBarDam and the Tennessee River into Rhea County near the WattsBar Nuclear Plant and continues west. The...
(18 m) between Melton Hill Lake and WattsBar Lake and vice versa. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognized the dam potential of the Melton Hill site...
confluence is now part of the WattsBar Lake impoundment of the Tennessee River, created by the completion of WattsBarDam in 1942. The Emory River empties...
power lines were laid from the TVA hydroelectric plants at Norris Dam and WattsBarDam, and the Clinton Engineer Works was given its own electrical substations...
nine TVA dams on the Tennessee River. The dam impounds the 14,600-acre (5,900 ha) Fort Loudoun Lake and its tailwaters are part of WattsBar Lake. The...
has a short concurrency with SR 68 before following along the banks of WattsBar Lake (as New Lake Road) to enter Spring City, where SR 302 comes to an...
upstream to its source(s). The dam once served as a complete road and rail crossing over the river and the locks that bypass the dam. After the most recent expansion...
Tennessee River. WattsBarDam, located along the Tennessee 38 miles (61 km) downstream from the mouth of the Clinch, impounds a reservoir (WattsBar Lake) that...
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