Tennesse Valley Authority : Also to tackle important issues in the Tennessee valley such as :

• Power production
• Flood control
• Reforestation
Norris dam

Location of Tennessee river Map showing the 7 states The Tennessee River flowing
in the USA. through which tennessee through the Tennessee River
river passes by. Gorge.
About TVA :
• Norris Dam is a hydroelectric and flood control structure located on
• The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 the Clinch River in Anderson County and Campbell County, Tennessee,
miles (1,049 km) long and is located in the southeastern United States in the Tennessee United States.
Valley. The river was once popularly known as the Cherokee River, among other names, • The dam was the first major project for the Tennessee Valley Authority,
as the Cherokee people had their homelands along its banks, which had been created in 1933 to bring economic development to the
• The river has been dammed numerous times since the 1930s by Tennessee Valley region and control the rampant flooding that had long plagued the
Authority (TVA) projects. The construction of TVA's Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee Tennessee Valley.
River and the Corps of Engineers' Barkley Dam on the Cumberland River led to the • Norris Dam is a straight concrete gravity-type dam. The dam is 1860
development of associated lakes, and the creation of an area called the Land Between feet (570 m) long and 265 feet (81 m) high.
the Lakes. • Norris Lake, the largest reservoir on a tributary of the Tennessee River,
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), U.S. government signed an act (TVA) and has 33,840 acres (137 km2) of water surface and 809 miles (1302 km)
established an agency in 1933 to control floods, improve navigation, improve the living of shoreline.
standards of farmers, and produce electrical power along the Tennessee River and its • Norris Dam is located at just over 79 miles (127 km) upstream from the
tributaries. mouth of the Clinch, immediately downstream from the river's
• he Tennessee River was subject to severe periodic flooding, and navigation along the confluence with Cove Creek, which joins the river from the northwest.
river’s middle course was interrupted by a series of shoals at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. • Norris Reservoir spans a 73-mile (117 km) stretch of the Clinch from the
• In 1933 the U.S. Congress passed a bill establishing the TVA, thus consolidating all the dam to River Ridge at the Claiborne-Grainger county line.
activities of the various government agencies in the area and placing them under the • The reservoir also covers the lower 56 miles (90 km) of the Powell
control of a single one. River, which empties into the Clinch 10 miles (16 km) upstream from
• A massive program of building dams, hydroelectric generating stations, and flood-control Norris Dam.
projects ensued. • As early as 1911, the present site of Norris Dam—initially called the
• The fusion of a broad range of specific powers with a sense of social responsibility to the "Cove Creek site"—was identified as a prime location for a sizeable
region made the TVA significant as a prototype of natural-resource planning. dam.
• Its jurisdiction is generally limited to the drainage basin of the Tennessee River, which • The community of Loyston, located about 20 miles (32 km) upstream
covers parts of seven states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North from the dam site, was entirely inundated.
Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. • Norris Dam was completed and the gates closed on March 4, 1936,
constructed at a cost of $36 million (equivalent to $537 million in 2020
TVA Act – Signed in 1933 Aimed at addressing the • Norris Dam was completed and the gates closed on March 4, 1936,
Valley's most important issues in ; constructed at a cost of $36 million (equivalent to $537 million in 2020
• energy • economic development • Although Norris was the first dam built by TVA, it is not the oldest dam
• environmental stewardship owned and operated by the agency.
Rachana R Kulkarni