- City:
- Rogersville, AL
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Dams
- New Deal Agencies:
- Conservation and Public Lands, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“Wheeler Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River between Lauderdale County and Lawrence County in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is one of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the mid-1930s as part of a New Deal-era initiative to improve navigation on the river and bring flood control and economic development to the region. The dam impounds the Wheeler Lake of 67,070 acres (27,140 ha) and its tailwaters feed into Wilson Lake…
Construction work on Wheeler Dam began on November 21, 1933, the second major dam construction project (after Norris) attempted by TVA…
Wheeler Dam was completed on November 9, 1936, constructed at a cost of $87,655,000.” (wikipedia)
Source notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_Dam https://www.tva.gov/Energy/Our-Power-System/Hydroelectric/Wheeler-ReservoirContribute to this Site
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