The 652-mile-long Tennessee River has seen some things in its time. ... In the Tennessee River system, there are 49 dams, ... Before joining the Times Free Press full-time in June 2023, ...

The Nolichucky River flows into the French Broad River shortly before the river feeds into Douglas Lake. How much water is flowing through TVA's Tennessee River dams? All nine dams TVA operates on ...

By 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. Sept. 29, according to the latest available data, this is how much water TVA was sending through its Tennessee River dams, ordered from furthest upstream to furthest downstream: ...

Throughout Hurricane Helene and its aftermath, the Tennessee River did not reach its flood stage of 820 feet. The record stage is 819.3 feet set March 28, 1994. Heavy releases from dams still ...

The Hales Bar Dam was built between 1905-1913 by the Chattanooga and Tennessee River Power Company to develop hydroelectric power, according to the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

The dam was spilling a record amount of water, 450,000 gallons a second, on Sept. 29 to pass the water down the river. Though there were scattered evacuations below the dam, Sheehan said, there ...

TVA said Douglas Dam has held well despite the torrential amount of rain that drenched western North Carolina and East Tennessee as rivers and small streams suddenly became raging rivers from Helene.