Elk River Dam
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The Elk River Dam, completed in 1952,[1] impounds the Elk River in the US state of Tennessee to form the Woods Reservoir. The US Air Force and Arnold Engineering Development Center own and operate Woods Reservoir.[1] The dam itself is just under 3,000 feet long and holds back 26 billion gallons of water on a 3,980-acre (1,610 ha) reservoir.[2] The water is used to help the Arnold Air Force Base with cooling of their wind-tunnel equipment.[2]
Water exiting from the dam flows along the Elk River into Tims Ford Lake.[3]
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An angler fishes downstream of the Elk River Dam in the early 1960s -
An aerial view of construction on the Elk River Dam is seen in this photo from the 1950s -
Aerial photo Woods Reservoir from the early 1980s
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Woods Reservoir in Tennessee". www.tn.gov. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
- ^ a b "Col. Brandt shares inside look of Elk River Dam". www.arnold.af.mil. Retrieved 2022-12-30.
- ^ "Tims Ford". TVA. Retrieved 10 Jan 2023.
