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Wilson Dam

American  

noun

  1. a dam on the Tennessee River, in NW Alabama, at Muscle Shoals: a part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 4,862 feet (1,482 meters) long; 137 feet (42 meters) high.


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Since 1925 the War Department has contracted annually with Alabama Power Co. and Tennessee Electric Power Co. to dispose of its Wilson Dam power at 2 mills per k.w.h.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Tennessee River, Wilson Dam, for instance, is valued at $33,000,000 but for yardstick purposes the power investment is considered to be only $22,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

When all nine of the planned generators are in operation, the output will be approximately i� times as much as Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cove Creek plant, with a rating of 149,000 h. p., will be connected with the Wilson Dam plant by the Authority's own transmission lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Tennessee Lakes were born in 1918 when Wilson Dam spanned the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Alabama; but their growth was retarded for fifteen years, until an Act of Congress injected them with vitamins.

From Thy Rocks and Rills by Gilbert, Robert E.

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