Watts Bar Dam On Map

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 chan…
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 Watts Bar Lake— which it impounds— and Chickamauga Lake, which stretches from the dam's tailwaters southward to Chattanooga.
  • Impounds: Tennessee River
  • Height: 112 ft (34 m)
  • Length: 2,960 ft (900 m)
  • Creates: Watts Bar Lake
  • Total capacity: 1,175,000 acre⋅ft (1,449,000 dam³)
  • Catchment area: 17,310 sq mi (44,800 km²)
  • Commission date: 1941-1944

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