LENOIR CITY – A cutting-edge Side Scan Sonar system is making Tennessee Valley Authority dam inspection cheaper and more efficient. The device, descended on a cord from a small boat, can take 2D ...

The recent rain has caused flooding all over the Tennessee Valley. TVA is using its sophisticated system to make sure the damage doesn't get out of control. "We're here 24/7," River Forecast ...

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), has announced that the Wilson Lock Interim Guard Wall will be installed this summer.

It said the TVA planned to install new generators by 2026 to meet the dam's required "minimum dissolved oxygen levels," without operating the existing system.

TVA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mobilize barges to create a temporary guard wall at Wilson Lock, enhancing safety ...

Nolichucky Dam, built before TVA was established and later acquired by the federal utility, is one of the oldest dams in the system. TVA reinforced its concrete wall in the 1970s.

The Boone Dam project achieved final completion in May 2022. “In the end, the project did not lose a single production shift due to COVID and was able to finish ahead of the planned schedule ...

TVA's system of dams along the Tennessee River and its tributaries has been tested by record flooding from Hurricane Helene, which drenched Western North Carolina and East Tennessee as a tropical ...

At TVA dam safety is especially important because the company’s Safety, River Management, and Environment team manages a network of 49 river dams in a system that circumvents millions—if not ...

TVA said Douglas Dam has held well despite the torrential amount of rain that drenched western North Carolina and East Tennessee as rivers and small streams suddenly became raging rivers from Helene.

TVA estimates 107 of its major transmission lines were damaged, and so were 350 structures supporting those lines. The utility has repaired only about 25 percent of its structures and still ...

It said the TVA planned to install new generators by 2026 to meet the dam's required "minimum dissolved oxygen levels," without operating the existing system.