- City:
- Guntersville, AL
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Conservation and Public Lands, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Guntersville Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River… one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to create a continuous navigation channel on the entire length of the river and bring flood control and economic development to the region. The dam impounds the Guntersville Lake of 67,900 acres, and its tailwaters feed into Wheeler Lake.” (Wikipedia)
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guntersville_Dam https://www.tva.gov/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 5, 2015.
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