Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse
Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse is a power station in Rhea, Tennessee. Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse is situated nearby to the park Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Watts Bar Dam and Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station.
Watts Bar Dam
Dam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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. Watts Bar Dam is situated 740 feet northeast of Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse.
Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station
Power station
Photo: TVA Web Team, CC BY 2.0.
The Watts Bar Nuclear Plant is a Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear reactor pair used for electric power generation. It is located on a 1,770-acre site in Rhea County, Tennessee, near Spring City, between Chattanooga and Knoxville. Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Station is situated 1½ miles south of Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse.
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. Euchee is situated 5 miles northeast of Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse.
Watts Bar Dam Powerhouse
- Type: Power station
- Categories: industry and building
- Location: Rhea, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.62037° or 35° 37′ 13″ northLongitude
-84.78378° or 84° 47′ 2″ westInception
March 1942Operator
Tennessee Valley AuthorityOpen location code
867QJ6C8+4FOpenStreetMap ID
way 158980767OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrial
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Watts Bar Dam Recreation Area and Peak-Hornsby Cemetery.
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