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Print Screen of TVA Chickamauga Reservoir
ML12335A345
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Site: Watts Bar  Tennessee Valley Authority icon.png
Issue date: 03/27/2012
From: Duncan J
Tennessee Valley Authority
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Plant Licensing Branch II
Poole, Justin
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TVA: Chickamauga Reservoir Supplier Portal TVAKids Employees & Retirees Distributor Portal TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY SEARCH GO Chickamauga Reservoir TVA Region Map Chickamauga:

Facts & Figures Construction of Chickamauga Dam began in 1936 and was completed in 1940.

The dam is 129 feet high and stretches 5,800 feet across the Tennessee River.

Chickamauga Reservoir has 784 miles of shoreline and about 36,240 acres of Chickamauga Reservoir is on the Tennessee River just north of Chattanooga. The reservoir water surface. It has a flood-storage stretches 59 miles upriver from the dam to Watts Bar Dam.

capacity of 345,300 acre-feet.

Chickamauga Reservoir is named for a tribe of Native Americans that In order to maintain the water depth broke away from the Cherokee Nation in the 1700s. They lived in villages required for navigation, the minimum along North Chickamauga Creek, which joins the river just below winter elevation for Chickamauga Chickamauga Dam. The reservoir is popular for fishing, boating, and Reservoir is 675 feet. The typical swimming. There are boat ramps on the reservoir and canoe access on summer operating range is between North Chickamauga Creek. 681.5 and 682.5 feet.

The Big Ridge Small Wild Area is a 200-acre upland hardwood forest Chickamauga and other reservoirs on the Tennessee and its tributaries have situated on a high ridge above the north shore of the reservoir at the prevented nearly $5 billion in flood dam. An easy 1.3-mile loop trail leads through the forest. Spring damage in the city of Chattanooga wildflowers include bloodroot, toothwort, larkspur, trillium, and mayapple. alone.

Before TVA created Chickamauga and other reservoirs above Chattanooga, The 60- by 360-foot lock at the city had one of the most serious flooding problems in the nation. Now Chickamauga lifts and lowers river the river that often threatened the city contributes to its economy as a craft about 50 feet between Nickajack and Chickamauga reservoirs.

major artery for barge traffic.

Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric More information on Chickamauga Reservoir facility. It has four generating units with a net dependable capacity of 119 Operating guide megawatts. Net dependable capacity Daily reservoir operation information is the amount of power a hydroelectric Sportfish survey results dam can produce on an average day, Sportfish ratings minus the electricity used by the dam itself.

Ecological health ratings Tailwater improvements Recreation facilities Tennessee Valley Authority LEGAL NOTICES INSPECTOR GENERAL SUPPLIER CONNECTION FACEBOOK 400 West Summit Hill Drive PRIVACY POLICY TVA POLICE ONLINE CONNECTION TWITTER Knoxville, TN 37902 LINKING POLICY EMPLOYMENT TVAKIDS YOUTUBE (865) 632-2101 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMUNITY RELATIONS INVESTOR RELATIONS FLICKR tvainfo@tva.gov NO FEAR ACT DATA LINKEDIN General Contact Information INFORMATION QUALITY http://www.tva.gov/sites/chickamauga.htm[3/27/2012 5:16:49 PM]