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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Spilling water at Chilhowee Dam




After the major rain event of mid-January, 2013, the Tennessee Valley Authority had to quickly release water from some of its tributary dams in order to recover storage space for any additional winter rainfall.  One of those tributary dams is Fontana Dam on the Little Tennessee River in North Carolina.  Because there are several dams downstream of Fontana that have very little storage capacity, these dams also had to release water.  One of these dams is Chilhowee Dam in Tennessee.  Until recently, this dam was owned and operated by a subsidiary of Alcoa, Inc.  Now it is owned and operated by Brookfield Smoky Mountain Hydro.  



The website for Chilhowee Dam is http://www.smokymountainhydro.com/content/about/chilhowee-35697.html.

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