1941 122mwNet TVA Cherokee Dam on Holston River near Jefferson City, TN

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Just a few weeks after this dam was finished, the "drawings, heavy equipment and seasoned engineers and construction workers" were used to build the Douglas Dam. [TVA-democracy]

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-- The dam is 175 feet high and stretches 6,760 feet, or well over a mile, from one end to the other.

-- In a year with normal rainfall, the water level in Cherokee Reservoir varies about 30 feet from summer to winter to provide seasonal flood storage.

-- Cherokee has a flood-storage capacity of 749,400 acre-feet.

-- Cherokee Dam is a hydroelectric facility. It has four generating units with a summer net dependable capacity of 122 megawatts. Net dependable capacity is the amount of power a hydroelectric dam can produce on an average day, minus the electricity used by the dam itself.

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TVA posted four photos with the comment:

Cherokee Dam, located on the Holston River in East Tennessee, began generating electricity 80 years ago!

This WWII-era dam does more than provide low-cost, renewable energy; it provides flood control, recreation, water supply, and much more.

Learn more http://tva.me/w0wx50ITqIC

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Dennis DeBruler: I'm guessing the Cherokee Dam.

After 80 years, the Unit 1 turbine was replaced by a turbine that can handle 30,872 gallons/sec and that can aerate the water. They have put the old turbine on display.

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