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The Tennessee River as it exists today, with 630 miles of continuous slack water navigation channel, 11,500,000 acre-ft of storage space reserved for flood control, and hydroelectric plants having a total installed capacity of 2,600,000 kw, is one of the most highly developed river systems in the world. This coordinated and almost complete system has been made possible by the application of the multiple-purpose principle of development. For more than a century money and effort were expended on the Tennessee River to develop navigation as a single-purpose objective, but little was accomplished beyond some isolated local improvements. It was the multiple use of structures for navigation, flood control, and power production which made economically feasible the high degree of coordinated development that exists today.
The Tennessee River as it exists today, with 630 miles of continuous slack water navigation channel, 11,500,000 acre-ft of storage space reserved for flood control, and hydroelectric plants having a total installed capacity of 2,600,000 kw, is one of the most highly developed river systems in the world. This coordinated and almost complete system has been made possible by the application of the multiple-purpose principle of development. For more than a century money and effort were expended on the Tennessee River to develop navigation as a single-purpose objective, but little was accomplished beyond some isolated local improvements. It was the multiple use of structures for navigation, flood control, and power production which made economically feasible the high degree of coordinated development that exists today.
Development of the Tennessee River Waterway
Blee, C. E. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 118 ; 1132-1146
2021-01-01
151953-01-01 pages
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