TVA undertakes spillway component replacement at Fort Loudoun Dam

Fort Loudoun Dam (Credit: TVA)

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is spending at least the next seven months replacing spillway gate hoists at the Fort Loudoun Dam in Loudon County, Tennessee.

In posts shared on social media, TVA said it is using a crane to hoist “huge” components to the dam, which is located on a nearby floating barge. Crews are working to replace 14 spillway gate hoists at the dam.

Fort Loudoun Dam was constructed by TVA and completed in 1943. It has four generating units with a summer net dependable capacity of 151 MW. The dam is 122 feet high and stretches 4,190 feet across the Tennessee River. To help with power production, water from the Little Tennessee River is diverted into Fort Loudoun Lake.

Fort Loudoun Reservoir, located on the Tennessee River at Knoxville, is the uppermost in the chain of nine TVA reservoirs that form a continuous navigable channel from there to Paducah, Kentucky, 652 miles away.

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