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Tennessee Valley Authority 2012 - Nickajack Reservoir

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Site:	Watts Bar
Issue date:	01/01/2012
From:	Tennessee Valley Authority
To:	Watts Bar Special Projects Branch
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TVA: Nickajack Reservoir http://www.tva.gov/sites/nickajack.htm

[3/27/2012 3:50:27 PM]TVA Region Map Nickajack ReservoirNickajack Dam in southeast Tennessee was finished in 1967. It replaced the old Hales Bar Dam,built by private interests in 1913, which had leaks in its foundation.Nickajack Reservoir extends 46 miles upstream from the dam toChickamauga Dam. The reservoir offers wide expanses of water and the spectacular scenery of the Tennessee River Gorge, known as the GrandCanyon of Tennessee.Boat-launching ramps and fishing berms are located on both sides of theriver below the dam, and a concrete fishing pier with footbridges and awheelchair ramp is available. TVA camping and picnicking facilities arealso available.Between late April and early October, nearby Nickajack Cave serves ashabitat for roosting gray bats, an endangered species. At dusk, the sky is darkened as thousands of bats emerge from the mouth of the cave.Nickajack is the sixth step in the stairway of TVA reservoirs and locks thatcarry barges up and down the Tennessee River. Some of the commodities passing through the Nickajack lock are grain, pulpwood, wood chips,soybean oil, salt, petroleum, steel products, and coal.More information on Nickajack ReservoirOperating guideDaily reservoir operation informationSportfish survey resultsSportfish ratingsEcological health ratingsTailwater improvementsRecreation facilities Nickajack:Facts & Figures Construction of Nickajack Dam beganin 1964 and was completed in 1967. The dam is 81 feet high and stretches 3,767 feet across the Tennessee

River. Nickajack Dam is a hydroelectric facility. It has four generating units with a net dependable capacity of 105 megawatts. Net dependable capacity is the amount of power a dam canproduce on an average day, minus theelectricity used by the dam itself.

Nickajack has 179 miles of shoreline and 10,370 acres of water surface.

At the construction of Nickajack Dam and its 600-foot lock, the foundation for an 800-foot lock was also built, to be completed at a later date when theneed arises.

The 110- by 600-foot lock now inoperation can lift as many as nine of today's large barges at a time.

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