Fort Loudoun Dam
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Fort Loudoun Dam is a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dam on the Tennessee River in East Tennessee. It impounds Fort Loudoun Lake at Lenoir City, Tennessee. This lake the uppermost reservoir in the chain of nine TVA reservoirs that form a continuous navigable channel on the Tennessee River from Knoxville to Paducah, Kentucky, 652 miles (1049 km) away.
[edit] Capacity
Fort Loudoun Dam is 122 feet (37 m) high and stretches 4,190 feet (1277 m) across the Tennessee River. Fort Loudoun provides 379 miles (610 km) of shoreline and 14,600 acres (59 km²) of water surface. Fort Loudoun has a flood-storage capacity of 111,000 acre-feet (137,000,000 m³), and generates 155.6 megawatts of electricity.
[edit] History
Construction of Fort Loudoun Dam began in 1940 and was completed in 1943. It is named for Fort Loudoun, an 18th century British fort built during the French and Indian War. The fort was named for John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, commander of British forces in North America at the time.
