Little Tennessee River
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At the time, it was only known to exist in the Little Tennessee River — which the Tennessee Valley Authority was planning to dam.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023
At the time, it had just been discovered and was only known to exist in one stretch of the Little Tennessee River — which the Tennessee Valley Authority was planning to dam.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2023
The fish held up construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee for more than two years as biologists and others fought to protect its only known habitat, the free-flowing Little Tennessee River.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2022
For four years the lowly snail darter, a finger-size species of perch, blocked completion of the $116 million Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the lake’s western end, where the Little Tennessee River flows into it, stands a big hydroelectric dam, 480 feet high, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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