Watts Bar Dam
Watts Bar Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Meigs and Rhea counties in Tennessee, United States. The dam is one of nine dams on the main Tennessee River channel operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to provide flood control and electricity and to help create a continuous navigable channel along the entire length of the river.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Dam
- …lies at an elevation of 682 feet (208 metres)
- …is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority
- Description: dam in Rhea County, Tennessee, United States of America
Places of Interest Nearby
Discover Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station.
Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley…
1½ miles south of Watts Bar Dam
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Euchee.
Euchee
Hamlet
Euchee is an unincorporated community in Meigs County, in the U.S. state of Tennessee.
5 miles northeast of Watts Bar Dam
Watts Bar Dam
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Latitude
35.62174° or 35° 37′ 18″ north
Longitude
-84.78194° or 84° 46′ 55″ west
Open location code
867QJ6C9+M6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway = dam
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Watts Bar Dam” goes by many names.
Watts Bar DamCebuano
واتس بار دامEgyptian Arabic
diga di Watts BarItalian
Watts Bar-demningenNorwegian
Watts Bar vannkraftverkNorwegian Bokmål
Watts Bar-demningenNorwegian Bokmål
ГЕС Воттс-БарUkrainian
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