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    Tellico Dam is a concrete gravity and earthen embankment dam on the Little Tennessee River that was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon...
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    the Tellico Dam Fight". The New York Times. p. 1. Archived from the original on July 26, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2021. "Telling the Story of Tellico: It's...
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    Snail darter controversy (category Dam controversies)
    endangered species during the construction of the Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River; the dam project had been authorized and begun before passage...
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  • Reservoir Tellico Dam on the Little Tennessee River forms Tellico Lake Tims Ford Dam on the Elk River impounds Tims Ford Lake Watauga Dam on the Watauga...
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    of Watts Bar Lake. The generating capacity of Fort Loudoun Dam is enhanced by the Tellico Reservoir, from which water is diverted via canal to Fort Loudoun...
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  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)'s Tellico Dam construction was in violation of the Endangered Species Act. Plaintiffs argued dam construction would destroy critical...
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    developments. Tellico Village was created along the shores of Tellico Lake, which was formed due to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) damming the Little...
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    five dams on the Little Tennessee River: Cheoah Dam is 10 miles (16 km) downstream, followed by Calderwood Dam, Chilhowee Dam, and Tellico Dam. Cheoah...
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    impoundments: Fontana Dam, Cheoah Dam, Calderwood Dam, Chilhowee Dam, and Tellico Dam, and one smaller impoundment, Porters Bend Dam. The Little Tennessee...
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    thousands of years before the arrival of early European explorers. The Tellico Dam and a recreational area occupy part of the island. Part of the island...
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    land along the Little Tennessee River for the purpose of creating the Tellico Dam. The plaintiffs argued that the flooding of the Little Tennessee River...
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    townsite was submerged in the late 20th century by creation of Tellico Lake, part of the Tellico Dam hydroelectric project completed in 1979 by the Tennessee...
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    controversy that involved a lawsuit seeking to halt the completion of Tellico Dam, which posed a risk of extinction for the snail darter by blocking its...
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  • List of flooded towns in the United States (category Dams in the United States)
    flooded by Dale Hollow Lake. Morganton, flooded by Tellico Dam. Tuskegee, flooded by Tellico Dam. Aiken, under Belton Lake Bland, under Belton Lake Bluffton...
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    known sites prior to inundation of the valley after completion of the Tellico Dam in 1979. Early explorers made several maps and wrote accounts of the...
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    site has been submerged by Tellico Lake, an impoundment of the Little Tennessee River created by the construction of Tellico Dam. Excavations were conducted...
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    sites were flooded in 1979 when the Tennessee Valley Authority completed Tellico Dam at the mouth of the Little Tennessee. Additional reconstruction of Fort...
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    Tennessee Valley Authority and conservation groups over the proposed Tellico Dam project took place in a meeting at Greenback High School. TVA had called...
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    Authority planned construction in the 1960s of its last major project: Tellico Dam, completed in 1979. It was intended for flood control, the generation...
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    Sơn La Dam Tagus-Segura Water Transfer Tellico Dam Tipaimukh Dam Cochabamba Water War Les Soulèvements de la Terre Yali Falls Dam Yortanlı Dam Almaraz...
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    the TVA Sycamore Dam — Sycamore Reservoir; on Dry Branch, tributary of the Beech River; finished in 1965 by the TVA Tellico DamTellico Lake; on the Little...
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    legal action, the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam project is completed. It remains the last dam to be built by the agency as of 2023. November...
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  • opposed the flooding of historic Cherokee sites by the construction of the Tellico Dam. The Smithsonian Institution and the North Carolina Museum of History...
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    world upside down." In the U.S., construction was ordered halted on the Tellico Dam in Tennessee because of the danger posed to an endangered species of...
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    site is now submerged by the Tellico Lake impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, created by the completion of Tellico Dam at the mouth of the river in...
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    facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems...
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    The Tellico Blockhouse was an early American outpost located along the Little Tennessee River in what developed as Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee. Completed...
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    this site prior to completion of the Tellico Dam, as that project would result in Toqua's inundation by Tellico Lake. The Toqua site was important as...
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    Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe. TVA's construction of the Tellico Dam in Loudon County became the subject of national controversy in the 1970s...
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    built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings...
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