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Dossier #154 · GRanD 1797

Watts Bar

🇺🇸United States · Tennessee River River

Built 1942 · Dam · data quality: Good

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Reservoir outline · simplified

Specifications

Height
34 m
Crest length
902 m
Reservoir capacity
1.4 km³
Reservoir area
120.7 km²
Average depth
12 m
Catchment
44,763 km²
Avg discharge
1,036,748 L/s
Elevation
222 masl
Degree of regulation
4.4 %

Provenance

Record 154 of the Global Dam Watch v1.0 database (CC BY 4.0), original source: GRanD, year via GRanD. Coordinates are river-snapped: 35.6239, -84.7802.