Status of Chatuge Reservoir: An overview of reservoir conditions and uses

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:10137127

TVA impounded Chatuge Reservoir in 1942 to provide emergency power production for national defense. Until 1954, when a turbine was installed in Chatuge Dam, Chatuge Reservoir provided water storage capacity that indirectly added generating capacity to downstream TVA dams. Today, Chatuge has a single turbine with a generating capacity of 10,000 kilowatts, which is about 0.3 percent of the total conventional hydropower capacity of the TVA system of reservoirs. Chatuge Reservoir is also operated to provide flood control. The 93,000 acre-feet (about 4 billion cubic feet) of flood storage capacity at Chatuge Dam is about 0.8 percent of the total for the TVA reservoir system and about 1.4 percent of the flood storage capacity upstream from Chattanooga, Tennessee. This report provides an overview of the uses and operation of Chatuge Reservoir.

• Research Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, TN (United States). Water Quality Dept.
• Sponsoring Organization: Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN (United States)
• OSTI ID: 10137127
• Report Number(s): TVA/WR/WQ--92/3; ON: DE93008977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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