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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| TVA -- 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 morehttp://tva.me/w0wx50ITqIC
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| TVA posted without identification 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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| TVA via wbir |
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| braum denton, sep 2018 |
2024: Hurricane Helene Impact
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| TVA posted 0:41 video The giant spillway gates open at Cherokee Dam near Jefferson City, TN, releasing over 37,000 gallons of water per second as we recover flood storage. In less than a week, lake levels soared 7.8 feet because of heavy rainfall in the region. The last time we spilled at Cherokee was in 2013. [That has to be 37,000 cubic feet per second. 37kgps is just 5kcfs.] |
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| Christy Walker commented on the above video Last time you spilled was September of 2018 |
Mandi Perry provided two photos.
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| 1, cropped Sept. 12, 2018 [Another comment indicated that the spilling in 2018 was due to Hurricane Florence.] |
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| 2, cropped Sept 30, 2024 |
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