Melton Hill Dam
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melton-hill-dam-314-3118372
title:
Melton Hill Dam
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Melton Hill Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River just south of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1960s to extend the Tennessee Valley's continuous navigation channel up the Clinch as far as Clinton and to increase TVA's overall power-generating capacity. The dam impounds the 5,470-acre (2,210 ha) Melton Hill Lake, and is the only TVA tributary dam serviced by a navigation lock. The dam and associ
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Dam in Tennessee and Lenoir City, Tennessee
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melton_Hill_Dam
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date modified:
2023-11-16T23:34:33Z
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