Chilhowee Dam is a hydroelectric dam located in Blount

Blount County, Tennessee

Blount County is a U.S. county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its population was 123,010 at the United States Census, 2010. The county seat is at Maryville, which is also the county's largest city....

 and Monroe counties, Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

, between river mile

River mile

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 33 and 34 on the Little Tennessee River

Little Tennessee River

The Little Tennessee River is a tributary of the Tennessee River, approximately 135 miles long, in the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States.-Geography:...

. Construction began in 1955 and was completed in 1957. The dam's reservoir covers approximately 1734 acres (701.7 ha) at normal full pool and has a drainage area of 1977 mi2. The elevation of Chilhowee Reservoir is 874 feet (266.4 m) above mean sea level (USGS). Chilhowee's powerhouse is equipped with three Kaplan turbine

Kaplan turbine

The Kaplan turbine is a propeller-type water turbine which has adjustable blades. It was developed in 1913 by the Austrian professor Viktor Kaplan, who combined automatically adjusted propeller blades with automatically adjusted wicket gates to achieve efficiency over a wide range of flow and...

s that have a combined generating capacity of 48 megawatts.

Like Calderwood

Calderwood Dam

Calderwood Dam is a hydroelectric dam located along the Little Tennessee River in Blount and Monroe counties, Tennessee. Completed in 1930, the dam is owned and maintained by Tapoco, a subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America , although the Tennessee Valley Authority controls the dam's...

 and Cheoah

Cheoah Dam

The Cheoah Dam is a hydroelectric complex located in Graham and Swain counties, North Carolina on the Little Tennessee River between river miles 51 and 52. The Cheoah Development consists of a dam and powerhouse, the first of several constructed by the Tallassee Power Company, now Tapoco...

, Chilhowee is controlled by TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected...

's Fontana Dam

Fontana Dam

Fontana Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River in Swain and Graham counties, North Carolina, USA. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the early 1940s to accommodate the skyrocketing electricity demands in the Tennessee Valley at the...

. Fontana Dam is the primary flow control facility for the lower Little Tennessee River

Little Tennessee River

The Little Tennessee River is a tributary of the Tennessee River, approximately 135 miles long, in the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States.-Geography:...

. Tapoco

Tapoco

Tapoco, originally Tallassee Power Company, is a generator and supplier of electric power. Tapoco is a division of APGI which in turn is owned by ALCOA Inc. The Tapoco Project serves to generate and supply hydroelectric power to ALCOA’s Tennessee Operations, an aluminum smelting and rolling mill...

 built and operates the Chilhowee Development.

Chilhowee Dam and its powerhouse are listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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as the Chilhowee Hydroelectric Development.