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Corps of Engineers managing water as storm front moves through Cumberland River Basin
As storms begin to move out of the Cumberland River Basin ... at Barkley Dam on the Cumberland River, which is operated by the Nashville District, and Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River, which ...
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Corps of Engineers managing water runoff in Cumberland River Basin
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District reports that its dam projects in the Cumberland River Basin are operating ... waterways in Middle Tennessee such as the Mill Creek and the ...
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A Tiny, 'Endangered' Fish Delayed a Dam's Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn't So Rare After All
when the Tennessee Valley Authority initiated construction on a dam on the Little Tennessee River, some 20 miles southwest of ...
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Two men were trapped in whirlpool below dam. Then came heroics, Tennessee cops say
Two boaters were discovered trapped in a whirlpool at the base of this dam in Blount County, Tennessee ... the report of a vessel in distress on Little River at Rockford Dam in Blount County.
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The most powerful fish that never lived
looking for ways to stop construction of the Tellico Dam in the 1970s, was exploring the Little Tennessee River with some students, when they happened upon a tiny fish that the teacher had never ...
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This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
David Etnier, a dam opponent and a zoologist at the University of Tennessee, went snorkeling with students in the Little Tennessee River at Coytee Spring, not far from Tellico. There, they found a ...