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Preliminary work begins on the massive Cove Creek Dam on the Clinch River near Knoxville, Tennessee, as part of President Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley project. U.S. Army engineers survey the site, which will create a large reservoir inundating villages, farms, and infrastructure, with costs estimated over $37 million.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 22, (AP) This rough, mountainous section where for years the inhabitants have gained a livelihood from small-scale farming and coal digging is awakening as President Roosevelt's gigantic Tennessee basin project gets under way. The stage is the Cove Creek dam site on tiny Clinch river, which winds serpent-like through the hills in its rush to the Tennessee river. Already more than 100 men—U. S. Army engineers and their helpers—have pitched their tents in the area and polished their surveying instruments preparatory to running flowage lines for the huge reservoir that will be created by damming the river.
SITE NEAR KNOXVILLE
The Clinch river, born in southwest Virginia, is fed by a multitude of Cumberland mountain streams. Twenty-five miles north of Knoxville and about the same distance from the Kentucky border the river bounds between sloping mountain sides. Its name comes from Cove Creek, a small stream emptying into the river a few hundred yards above. The dam, which engineers say will be one of the world's largest will be 225 feet high, more than twice the height of Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals, 250 miles southeastward on the Tennessee. Parts of five counties will be inundated.
RESERVOIR IS BIG JOB
Preparing the reservoir floor will be a gigantic task in itself. All timbers must be cleared from the heavily forested basin floor. Caverns that might turn water thru some other territory must be plugged with cement. Scores of cemeteries must be removed. Preliminary estimates have been placed at $85,280.
SUBMERGE VILLAGE
The cost of re-locating railroads, highways and bridges is estimated at more than $5,000,000. The village of Loyston will lie at the bottom of more than 200 feet of water when the reservoir is filled, and the coal mining town of Caryville will be partly submerged. Scores of schools, churches and farm homes will be covered with water. Estimates made in 1930 placed the total cost at $37,540,643, including the main dam at $6,842,836, spillway at $1,810,839, power house at $4,903,457 and barge lift at $2,983,850, but Major Robert R. Neyland, U. S. Army district engineer in charge, says the dam can be built for less now.
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Cove Creek Dam Site, Clinch River, Near Knoxville, Tenn.
Event Date
May 22
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no casualties; reservoir will inundate parts of five counties, submerge loyston village and parts of caryville, cover schools, churches, farm homes, and cemeteries; relocation costs over $5,000,000; total project cost estimated at $37,540,643 but possibly less.
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U.S. Army engineers and over 100 men begin preliminary surveying and tent setup at Cove Creek dam site on Clinch River for President Roosevelt's Tennessee basin project. The 225-foot-high dam will create a large reservoir, requiring clearing timber, plugging caverns, removing cemeteries, and relocating railroads, highways, bridges.