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Description: The original design plan for Norris Dam, built by the TVA on the Clinch River in Tennessee, USA. TVA adopted the design from a previous design the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had drafted for the "Cove Creek Project" in the late 1920s. The design was modified with the help of U.S. Bureau of Land Reclamation engineers.
Title: Norris-dam-design-tva1
Credit: Tennessee Valley Authority, The Norris Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Tennessee Valley Authority's First Water Control Project, Technical Report No. 1 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940), p. 72.
Author: Tennessee Valley Authority, based heavily on designs by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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