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For the retirement community rooted from the City of Timberlake plan, see <a href="/wiki/Tellico_Village,_Tennessee" title="Tellico Village, Tennessee">Tellico Village, Tennessee</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Dam in Tennessee, U.S. near Lenoir City</div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org" style="background-color:skyblue;">Tellico Dam</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Tellico_Dam.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tellico_Dam.jpg/220px-Tellico_Dam.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tellico_Dam.jpg/330px-Tellico_Dam.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Tellico_Dam.jpg/440px-Tellico_Dam.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1517" data-file-height="998" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">The main concrete gravity structure for Tellico Dam, pictured here in 2013.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">Tellico Dam</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="200" data-zoom="8" data-overlays="["_48f7b886ef33f2520bc0f24a22d709c9c5ab9229"]"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,8,a,a,270x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Tellico_Dam&revid=1247481241&groups=_48f7b886ef33f2520bc0f24a22d709c9c5ab9229" width="270" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,8,a,a,270x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Tellico_Dam&revid=1247481241&groups=_48f7b886ef33f2520bc0f24a22d709c9c5ab9229 2x" alt="Map" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Loudon_County,_Tennessee" title="Loudon County, Tennessee">Loudon County, Tennessee</a>, U.S. near <a href="/wiki/Lenoir_City,_Tennessee" title="Lenoir City, Tennessee">Lenoir City</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Coordinates</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Tellico_Dam&params=35_46_40_N_84_15_35_W_region:US-TN_type:landmark"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">35°46′40″N</span> <span class="longitude">84°15′35″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">35.77778°N 84.25972°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">35.77778; -84.25972</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Purpose</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Recreation" title="Recreation">Recreational development</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_development" title="Economic development">economic development</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism" title="Tourism">tourism</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Construction began</th><td class="infobox-data">March 7, 1967<span class="noprint">; 57 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1967-03-07</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Opening date</th><td class="infobox-data">November 29, 1979<span class="noprint">; 45 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1979-11-29</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-watery_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-watery-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Construction cost</th><td class="infobox-data">$116 million<sup id="cite_ref-watery_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-watery-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (487 million in 2023 dollars<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-US_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-US-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:skyblue;">Dam and spillways</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dam#Types" title="Dam">Type of dam</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Concrete" title="Concrete">Concrete</a> <a href="/wiki/Gravity_dam" title="Gravity dam">gravity dam</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soil" title="Soil">earth</a> <a href="/wiki/Embankment_dam" title="Embankment dam">embankment dam</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Impounds</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">129 ft (39 m)<sup id="cite_ref-NPDP_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPDP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td class="infobox-data">3,238 ft (987 m)<sup id="cite_ref-NPDP_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPDP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:skyblue;">Reservoir</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Creates</th><td class="infobox-data">Tellico Reservoir</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Total capacity</th><td class="infobox-data">467,600 acre⋅ft (576,800,000 m<sup>3</sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-NPDP_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPDP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">Catchment area</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2,627 sq mi (6,800 km<sup>2</sup>)<sup id="cite_ref-NPDP_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPDP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Surface area</th><td class="infobox-data">14,200 acres (5,700 ha)<sup id="cite_ref-NPDP_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPDP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Tellico Dam</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Concrete" title="Concrete">concrete</a> gravity and <a href="/wiki/Soil" title="Soil">earthen</a> <a href="/wiki/Embankment_dam" title="Embankment dam">embankment</a> <a href="/wiki/Dam" title="Dam">dam</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a> that was built by the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> (TVA) in <a href="/wiki/Loudon_County,_Tennessee" title="Loudon County, Tennessee">Loudon County, Tennessee</a>. Planning for a dam structure on the Little Tennessee was reported as early as 1936 but was deferred for development until 1942. Completed in 1979, the dam created the Tellico Reservoir and is the last dam to be built by the Tennessee Valley Authority. </p><p>Unlike the agency's previous dams built for <a href="/wiki/Hydroelectricity" title="Hydroelectricity">hydroelectric power</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flood_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood control">flood control</a>, the Tellico Dam was primarily constructed as an <a href="/wiki/Economic_development" title="Economic development">economic development</a> and tourism initiative through the <a href="/wiki/Planned_community" title="Planned community">planned city</a> concept of Timberlake, Tennessee. The development project aimed to support a population of 42,000 in a rural region in poor economic conditions. </p><p>Referred to as a <a href="/wiki/Pork_barrel" title="Pork barrel">pork barrel</a>, the Tellico Dam is the subject of several controversies regarding the need of its construction and the impacts the structure had on the surrounding environment. Inundation of the Little Tennessee required the acquisition of thousands of acres, predominantly multi-generational farmland and historic sites such as the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Loudoun_(Tennessee)" title="Fort Loudoun (Tennessee)">Fort Loudoun</a> settlement and several <a href="/wiki/Cherokee_Nation" title="Cherokee Nation">Cherokee tribal villages</a> including <a href="/wiki/Tanasi" title="Tanasi">Tanasi</a>, the origin of Tennessee's name. Most of the acreage around the final lakeshore, originally seized through <a href="/wiki/Eminent_domain" title="Eminent domain">eminent domain</a>, was sold to private developers to create retirement-oriented golf resort communities such as <a href="/wiki/Tellico_Village,_Tennessee" title="Tellico Village, Tennessee">Tellico Village</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rarity_Bay,_Tennessee" title="Rarity Bay, Tennessee">Rarity Bay</a>. </p><p>The Tellico Dam project was also controversial because of the risk it was believed to pose to the endangered <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter" title="Snail darter">snail darter</a> fish species. Environmentalist groups took the TVA to court as a means to halt the project and protect the snail darter. The court action delayed the final completion of the dam for over two years. In the 1978 case <i><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a></i> heard by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a>, the court ruled in favor of the environmental groups and declared that the completion of Tellico Dam was illegal.<sup id="cite_ref-morrissey_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-morrissey-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the dam was completed and filling of the reservoir commenced in November 1979, after the project was exempted from the Endangered Species Act with the passing of the 1980 public works appropriations bill by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">United States Congress</a> and President <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png/220px-Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png/330px-Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png/440px-Timberlake_TVA_conceptual_model.png 2x" data-file-width="1030" data-file-height="828" /></a><figcaption>Conceptual model of the planned City of Timberlake, part of the justification for Tellico Dam.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Preliminary_planning_and_Timberlake_initiative">Preliminary planning and Timberlake initiative</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Preliminary planning and Timberlake initiative"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Tennessee Valley Authority">Tennessee Valley Authority</a> (TVA) is a <a href="/wiki/State-owned_enterprises_of_the_United_States#List_of_partially_or_wholly_federally_owned_enterprises" title="State-owned enterprises of the United States">federally owned</a> <a href="/wiki/Electric_utility" title="Electric utility">electric utility</a> company created by <a href="/wiki/Title_16_of_the_United_States_Code" title="Title 16 of the United States Code">U.S. Code Title 16</a>, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933. Despite its shares being owned by the federal government, TVA operates like a private corporation, and receives no taxpayer funding.<sup id="cite_ref-about_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-about-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The TVA was formally established in 1933 as part of programs under the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>. </p><p>The agency was initially tasked with modernizing the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a> region, using experts in economic development, engineering, planning, and agriculture. Nonetheless, the TVA focused primarily on electricity generation, <a href="/wiki/Flood_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood control">flood control</a>, and combatting human and <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_United_States" title="Economy of the United States">economic</a> problems.<sup id="cite_ref-schulman_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schulman-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1936, TVA began studies for hydroelectric dam sites as part of its Unified Development of the Tennessee River (UDTR) plan. Early TVA plans suggested the construction of a dam along the <a href="/wiki/Little_Tennessee_River" title="Little Tennessee River">Little Tennessee River</a> at its mouth at the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_River" title="Tennessee River">Tennessee River</a> adjacent to <a href="/wiki/Bussell_Island" title="Bussell Island">Bussell Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-complicated_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-complicated-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This later became known as the Fort Loudoun Extension, an expansion of the adjacent <a href="/wiki/Fort_Loudoun_Dam" title="Fort Loudoun Dam">Fort Loudoun Dam</a>. However, the project was canceled on October 20, 1942, due to a lack of federal funding resulting from financial constraints imposed by <a href="/wiki/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II" title="United States home front during World War II">US involvement in World War II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png/300px-Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png/450px-Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png/600px-Land_use_plan_of_TVA%27s_failed_Timberlake_City_project.png 2x" data-file-width="1791" data-file-height="812" /></a><figcaption>Original 1975 <a href="/wiki/Land_use" title="Land use">land-use</a> plan for the City of Timberlake project.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1959, the TVA reapproved development of the Fort Loudoun Extension, now called the Tellico Project. The justification for the project was to improve the economic conditions of the Little Tennessee <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">watershed</a>, through <a href="/wiki/Land_development" title="Land development">land</a> and <a href="/wiki/Recreation" title="Recreation">recreational development</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wilson_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilson-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This project, which encompassed acreage in Loudon, <a href="/wiki/Blount_County,_Tennessee" title="Blount County, Tennessee">Blount</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Tennessee" title="Monroe County, Tennessee">Monroe</a> counties, became known as the City of Timberlake Plan, named for journalist <a href="/wiki/Henry_Timberlake" title="Henry Timberlake">Henry Timberlake</a> who explored the Cherokee villages that once occupied the area.<sup id="cite_ref-timberlakeEIS_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timberlakeEIS-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Timberlake, the TVA's ambitious attempt at <a href="/wiki/Planned_community" title="Planned community">creating a city from scratch</a>, had a projected population of 42,000. The project was promoted as a demonstration of economic development for the rural poor, transforming the Little Tennessee Valley into a thriving urban center.<sup id="cite_ref-timberlakeEIS_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timberlakeEIS-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Tellico Dam would provide a large reservoir for recreation and for freight transport to proposed industrial sites with access to the Tennessee River through a canal. The dam would not produce electricity, but the canal would enable an additional 23 MW of power generation at the Fort Loudon Dam by diverting flow from the Little Tennessee River.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Neely_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neely-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Timberlake project was initially supported with congressional aid and investment from the American <a href="/wiki/Aerospace_manufacturing" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerospace manufacturing">aerospace manufacturing</a> company, the <a href="/wiki/Boeing_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Boeing Corporation">Boeing Corporation</a>. In 1974, the Tennessee state legislature unsuccessfully proposed a bill seeking to <a href="/wiki/Municipal_corporation" title="Municipal corporation">incorporate</a> the Timberlake area into a city. Boeing determined that the project was not economically feasible and withdrew in 1975; the plans never fully materialized.<sup id="cite_ref-mctnenc_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mctnenc-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Property_acquisition_and_eminent_domain">Property acquisition and eminent domain</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Property acquisition and eminent domain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:224px;max-width:224px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Morganton site pre-Tellico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif/220px-Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif/330px-Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif/440px-Morganton-tennessee-1939-tva1.gif 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="355" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Morganton site post-Tellico" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg/220px-Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg/330px-Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg/440px-Morganton-site-tennessee1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2041" data-file-height="1469" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The town of <a href="/wiki/Morganton,_Tennessee" title="Morganton, Tennessee">Morganton</a> was one of several communities seized and <a href="/wiki/Inundation" class="mw-redirect" title="Inundation">inundated</a> by the TVA for the Tellico Project.</div></div></div></div> <p>The Tellico Dam project required the acquisition of nearly 38,000 acres (15,000 ha) of property for its development. The reservoir created by the dam was forecast to extend over 16,500 acres (6,700 ha) with an extra 2,900 acres (1,200 ha) in <a href="/wiki/Flood_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood control">flood control</a> reserves. For the remaining area, TVA allocated 16,500 acres (6,700 ha) for residential, recreational, and industrial development as part of the proposed Timberlake planned city project. The remaining land served as buffer zones between development areas and the reservoir.<sup id="cite_ref-EISacres_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EISacres-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When the TVA began to approach property owners in the Lower Tennessee Valley for the development of Tellico Dam, several communities that TVA sought to <a href="/wiki/Modernization_theory" title="Modernization theory">"modernize"</a> through this project were at the time in touch with most of the modern <a href="/wiki/Appalachia" title="Appalachia">Appalachian</a> society that TVA had contributed to since the 1930s. Members of the river shed communities least impacted by modernization reacted most positively to TVA's plans, compared with the more modern communities. Historians of the project have suggested that most TVA personnel did not understand the complexity of the communities that they were intruding into with the Tellico project, leading to more heated opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-bureaucratic_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bureaucratic-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 62–63">: 62–63 </span></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Little_Tennessee_River_(5149475130).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Little_Tennessee_River_%285149475130%29.jpg/220px-Little_Tennessee_River_%285149475130%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Little_Tennessee_River_%285149475130%29.jpg/330px-Little_Tennessee_River_%285149475130%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Little_Tennessee_River_%285149475130%29.jpg/440px-Little_Tennessee_River_%285149475130%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4416" data-file-height="2480" /></a><figcaption>The Little Tennessee River in <a href="/wiki/Swain_County,_North_Carolina" title="Swain County, North Carolina">Swain County, North Carolina</a> in 2010. Prior to the Tellico Dam, the river resembled this portion in the Little Tennessee Valley.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Tellico Project was revealed to the public as early as 1960, with reactions similar to previous TVA projects. Public meetings commenced throughout the Little Tennessee Valley in the mid-1960s at civic spaces in <a href="/wiki/Loudon_County,_Tennessee" title="Loudon County, Tennessee">Loudon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blount_County,_Tennessee" title="Blount County, Tennessee">Blount</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Monroe_County,_Tennessee" title="Monroe County, Tennessee">Monroe</a> counties to address concerns raised by citizens about the Tellico and Timberlake projects. At the time, TVA officials did not expect that the Tellico Project would be met with anything more than token opposition.<sup id="cite_ref-millsaps_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millsaps-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1963, small clusters of Little Tennessee Valley landowners and businesspeople formed a community group known as the Fort Loudoun Association opposing the Tellico project. Extensive local opposition emerged at a public forum on September 22, 1964, at Greenback High School in the town of <a href="/wiki/Greenback,_Tennessee" title="Greenback, Tennessee">Greenback</a>, located on the proposed eastern shore of the Tellico reservoir. Four hundred residents attended with over 90% reporting strong opposition. Attendees grew hostile, perceiving the Tellico project as an intrusion. One month after the contentious meeting at Greenback High School, anti-Tellico individuals formed a larger opposition group, the Association for the Preservation of the Little Tennessee River. This move showed that project opposition was not one that "would easily buckle and roll over before the mighty presence of the Tennessee Valley Authority".<sup id="cite_ref-bureaucratic_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bureaucratic-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 64–86">: 64–86 </span></sup> </p><p>The property acquisition phase of the project required the use of <a href="/wiki/Eminent_domain" title="Eminent domain">eminent domain</a>, a statutory right granted to TVA at its establishment by Congress in 1933. This legal authority allowed TVA to take ownership of private property for uses the TVA deemed to be for public benefit.<sup id="cite_ref-dispossessed_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dispossessed-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many property owners concerned about seizure of land reported that TVA personnel provided "taking lines" about the extent of private land acquisition that was planned. Many viewed these actions as TVA <a href="/wiki/Overreaching" title="Overreaching">overreaching</a> their authority, provoking more public opposition to the project.<sup id="cite_ref-bureaucratic_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bureaucratic-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 125–129">: 125–129 </span></sup> Compared with TVA's early hydroelectric projects, the documentation of residents to be relocated was poorly executed. TVA officials did not document the exact number of families that were affected, even after the property acquisition process had started in 1963. Initial estimates suggested the removal of 600 families, whereas the actual number was closer to 350 families. The individuals in each of these 350 families were not recorded.<sup id="cite_ref-bureaucratic_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bureaucratic-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 125–129">: 125–129 </span></sup> Most of the families who were required to move complied, but three unwilling property owners were evicted by <a href="/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service" title="United States Marshals Service">U.S. Marshals</a> and watched their houses being demolished as they were evicted.<sup id="cite_ref-rawls_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rawls-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Tellico project also had a significant impact on farming, with 330 farms along the Little Tennessee River lost following inundation.<sup id="cite_ref-ecsu_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ecsu-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In total, $25.5 million was spent by the TVA for land acquisition.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Engineering_and_construction">Engineering and construction</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Engineering and construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg/220px-Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg/330px-Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg/440px-Early_Tellico_Dam_Construction.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1336" data-file-height="1038" /></a><figcaption>Construction on the Tellico Dam concrete structure in 1967.</figcaption></figure> <p>The engineering design of the Tellico Dam project consisted of a 600 ft-long (180 m) by 129 ft-high (39 m) concrete <a href="/wiki/Gravity_dam" title="Gravity dam">gravity dam</a> with flood gates, a 2,500 ft-long (760 m) <a href="/wiki/Embankment_dam" title="Embankment dam">earthen dam</a>, and an 850 ft-long (260 m), 500 ft-wide (150 m) navigable <a href="/wiki/Canal" title="Canal">canal</a> connecting the Tellico Reservoir impoundment to the Fort Loudoun impoundment of the Tennessee River.<sup id="cite_ref-millsaps_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millsaps-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dam itself created the Tellico Reservoir impoundment of the Little Tennessee River. The Tellico Reservoir with a <a href="/wiki/Reservoir" title="Reservoir">full pool</a> water capacity of 467,600 acre⋅ft (576,800,000 m<sup>3</sup>), a <a href="/wiki/Drainage_basin" title="Drainage basin">drainage basin</a> of 2,627 sq mi (6,800 km<sup>2</sup>), and a water <a href="/wiki/Surface_area" title="Surface area">surface area</a> of 14,200 acres (5,700 ha).<sup id="cite_ref-NPDP_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPDP-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Along the shoreline of the proposed reservoir, roughly 23,600 acres (9,600 ha) would be acquired to be cleared and graded for future residential, commercial, industrial, and recreational area development.<sup id="cite_ref-porkbarrel_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-porkbarrel-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Construction on the Tellico Project began on March 7, 1967, with clearing work for the main dam structure. Work on the concrete structure of the dam was complete by October of the next year.<sup id="cite_ref-altconst78_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-altconst78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tellicoEIS_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tellicoEIS-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other portions of the dam constructed with <a href="/wiki/Filler_(materials)" title="Filler (materials)">earth fill</a> were complete by August 1975, with the river flow from the original Little Tennessee soon forced via pump through the completed <a href="/wiki/Sluice_gate" class="mw-redirect" title="Sluice gate">sluice gates</a> of the main concrete dam.<sup id="cite_ref-altconst78_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-altconst78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around this time, work on <a href="/wiki/Cofferdam" title="Cofferdam">coffer dams</a> to assist with the main dam were complete.<sup id="cite_ref-altconst78_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-altconst78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time of the forced closure of construction, work on the Tellico Project was nearly 90% complete, aside from final land clearing, recreational facility preparation, and a highway system that was nearly finished.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-altconst78_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-altconst78-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg/300px-TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg/450px-TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg/600px-TVA_engineers_monitoring_Tellico_Dam_model.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="820" /></a><figcaption>TVA engineers monitoring <a href="/wiki/Hydraulics" title="Hydraulics">hydraulics</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Prototype" title="Prototype">prototype</a> of Tellico Dam.</figcaption></figure> <p>In total, $63 million was endowed for the construction of the concrete dam and spillway, the main earth dam, coffer dams, roadway and railroad facilities, reservoir clearing, utility relocations, access roads, a canal with access to the Tennessee River, public use facilities, and general yard improvements.<sup id="cite_ref-greed_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-greed-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of this funding was used for the dam, over 65 miles (105 km) of state, county, and local access roads, and three large-scale bridge replacement projects. The TVA also invested another $3.6 million for two major road projects scheduled for initial work starting after the completion and opening of the Tellico Dam structure. Officials with the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Department_of_Transportation" title="Tennessee Department of Transportation">Tennessee Department of Transportation</a> expressed doubt about the completion of the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_State_Route_444" title="Tennessee State Route 444">Tellico Parkway</a> (State Route 444), one of these major road projects.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The TVA received nearly $665,000 in revenue as the project was underway. Timber cleared for the project provided $99,000 and farmland and housing seized by the agency was leased with a revenue close to $566,000.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Labor costs for the project totaled $24.7 million, with most of this associated with the construction of the main Tellico Dam structure. Engineering, planning, and administrative services for the project cost $14.7 million.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Environmental_impacts_and_legal_action">Environmental impacts and legal action</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Environmental impacts and legal action"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Tellico Dam controversy" redirects here. For more details about the snail darters, see <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter_controversy" title="Snail darter controversy">Snail darter controversy</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Percina_tanasi01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Percina_tanasi01.jpg/220px-Percina_tanasi01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Percina_tanasi01.jpg/330px-Percina_tanasi01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Percina_tanasi01.jpg/440px-Percina_tanasi01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="768" data-file-height="512" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter" title="Snail darter">snail darter</a> fish, endangered at the time of the Tellico project's construction, was the subject of <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter_controversy" title="Snail darter controversy">calls to halt work on the dam</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Supreme Court decision</a> regarding the <a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Endangered Species Act">Endangered Species Act</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Prior to any construction work, the Tennessee Fish and Game Commission addressed concerns to TVA personnel that the construction of Tellico Dam would bring the demise of <a href="/wiki/Trout_fishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Trout fishing">trout fishing</a> on the Little Tennessee.<sup id="cite_ref-millsaps_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millsaps-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>TVA attempted to control and defuse local controversy regarding the Tellico Project with the formation of local group known as the Little Tennessee River Valley Development Association (LTRVDA) in 1963. However, within a year, the LTRVDA was unable to control local opposition. Citing the loss of prime farmland, in December 1964 the Tennessee Farm Bureau Association passed resolutions protesting the completion of Tellico Dam. One year later, delegates from the Cherokee Nation filed a petition protesting the desecration of their ancestral lands that were proposed to be flooded for the Tellico Dam. This petition was sent to the office of Supreme Court Associate Justice <a href="/wiki/William_O._Douglas" title="William O. Douglas">William O. Douglas</a>, who forwarded the petition to President <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1971, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee,_Knoxville" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Tennessee, Knoxville">University of Tennessee, Knoxville</a> (UTK) economics professor Keith Phillips criticized TVA's plans for Tellico Dam in a reappraisal of the project. Phillips found fault with the cost and benefits evaluation conducted by the TVA, and suggested that the agency's officials on the project were technically incompetent.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following continued press of TVA's excessive and "abusive" power regarding the agency's property acquisition methods for the Tellico Project, <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> governor <a href="/wiki/Winfield_Dunn" title="Winfield Dunn">Winfield Dunn</a> wrote in a 1971 <a href="/wiki/Dissent" title="Dissent">letter of dissent</a> to TVA chair Wagner to stop construction of Tellico Dam, stating that the TVA should recognize "that the Little Tennessee as it now exists is a waterway too valuable for the State of Tennessee to sacrifice."<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TVA rejected Dunn's request in a letter of response one year later.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Finding an opportunity, Little Tennessee Valley farmers and environmentalists formed a joint activist group known as the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) in 1972. The EDF brought suit against TVA under the <a href="/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act" title="National Environmental Policy Act">National Environmental Policy Act</a> (NEPA), claiming that no <a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_assessment" title="Environmental impact assessment">environmental impact statement</a> (EIS) had been made, violating the NEPA. In court, TVA personnel presented an EIS completed prior to the lawsuit by the EDF. The case was dismissed, allowing construction to continue without disruption.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Discovery_of_the_snail_darter">Discovery of the snail darter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Discovery of the snail darter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Howard_Baker_1989.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Howard_Baker_1989.jpg/220px-Howard_Baker_1989.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Howard_Baker_1989.jpg/330px-Howard_Baker_1989.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Howard_Baker_1989.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="503" /></a><figcaption>U.S. senator from Tennessee <a href="/wiki/Howard_Baker" title="Howard Baker">Howard Baker</a> openly supported the completion of the Tellico Dam, and had referred to the snail darter as his "nemesis."<sup id="cite_ref-matthiessen_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-matthiessen-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>On August 12, 1973, a group of students led by UTK biology professor David Etnier conducted a study for possible <a href="/wiki/Endangered_species" title="Endangered species">endangered species</a> via snorkeling in the Little Tennessee River during construction operations on Tellico Dam. Prior to the expedition, Etnier predicted up to ten endangered species occupied the proposed Tellico Reservoir basin. In the Coytee Springs shoal area of the Little Tennessee, Etnier identified several <a href="/wiki/Snail_darter" title="Snail darter">snail darters</a>, to which in a later interview with the <i><a href="/wiki/Knoxville_News_Sentinel" title="Knoxville News Sentinel">Knoxville News Sentinel</a></i> suggested he "knew nobody had ever seen it before."<sup id="cite_ref-wilson_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilson-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four months later, the <a href="/wiki/Nixon_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Nixon administration">Nixon administration</a> passed the <a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_of_1973" title="Endangered Species Act of 1973">Endangered Species Act of 1973</a> (ESA), providing federal protection for endangered species from potential habitat destructions. By this point, the dam was well under construction and already over US$53 million (equivalent to $278 million in 2023<sup id="cite_ref-inflation-USGDP_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-inflation-USGDP-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) had been spent on the construction work, requiring an injunction to stop the building from continuing and the flooding to happen.<sup id="cite_ref-wilson_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilson-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 10, 1975, the snail darter was placed on the Endangered Species list by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Fish_and_Wildlife_Service" title="United States Fish and Wildlife Service">United States Fish and Wildlife Service</a> (FWS). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Litigation_to_protect_the_snail_darter">Litigation to protect the snail darter</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Litigation to protect the snail darter"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a></div> <p>Seeking to protect the snail darter, UTK law student Hiram "Hank" Hill, in collaboration with David Etnier, filed the case <i><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority_v._Hill" title="Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill">Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Case_citation" title="Case citation">437 U.S. 153</a> in federal court, citing that the TVA was in violation of the ESA. District Court Judge Robert Taylor declined an <a href="/wiki/Injunction" title="Injunction">injunction</a> to order the cessation of construction work on Tellico Dam on May 25, 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However, on January 31, 1977, the District Court's decision was reversed and construction on the dam was ordered to stop, following an injunction from the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Sixth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit">United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-emd-77-58_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-emd-77-58-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The TVA then petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the snail darter as an endangered species on February 28. The FWS denied this request in December. On behalf of the TVA, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">United States Department of Justice</a> filed an appeal against the decision of the 6th Circuit regarding <i>Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill</i> on January 25, 1978, to the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court of the United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Zygmunt_Plater_to_Discuss_His_Book_The_Snail_Darter_and_the_Dam,_March_13_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Zygmunt_Plater_to_Discuss_His_Book_The_Snail_Darter_and_the_Dam,_March_13-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>Hill</i>, the Supreme Court affirmed, by a 6–3 vote, the injunction issued by the 6th Circuit Appeals Court to stop construction of the dam. Citing explicit wording of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to ensure that <a href="/wiki/Habitat" title="Habitat">habitat</a> for <a href="/wiki/Endangered_species" title="Endangered species">listed species</a> is not disrupted, the Court said "it is clear that the TVA's proposed operation of the dam will have precisely the opposite effect, namely the eradication of an endangered species."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aftermath_of_Supreme_Court_decision">Aftermath of Supreme Court decision</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Aftermath of Supreme Court decision"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nellie_McCall_at_her_Greenback_farm,_1979.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/22/Nellie_McCall_at_her_Greenback_farm%2C_1979.png/220px-Nellie_McCall_at_her_Greenback_farm%2C_1979.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Nellie_McCall_at_her_Greenback_farm%2C_1979.png 1.5x" data-file-width="247" data-file-height="226" /></a><figcaption>Greenback resident Nellie McCall on her 90-acre farm; McCall was evicted by U.S. Marshals and watched as her home was demolished after refusing TVA offers. McCall had strongly opposed Tellico Dam following her husband's death, brought on from an Telllico-induced heart attack.<sup id="cite_ref-watery_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-watery-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>In the ensuing controversy over the snail darter, the <a href="/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act_Amendments_of_1978#The_Amendment_of_1978" title="Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1978">Endangered Species Committee</a> (also known as the "God Squad") was convened to issue a waiver of ESA protection of the snail darter. In a unanimous decision, the Committee refused to exempt the Tellico Dam project. Charles Schultze, the chairman of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_President" class="mw-redirect" title="United States President">President's</a> <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers" title="Council of Economic Advisers">Council of Economic Advisers</a>, later cited economic assessments concluding that, despite the Tellico Dam being 95% complete, "if one takes just the cost of finishing it against the benefits and does it properly, it doesn't pay, which says something about the original design."<sup id="cite_ref-Plater_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plater-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following publication of a story by <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> (NYT) regarding the death of nearly 100 snail darters during an October 1977 <a href="/wiki/Species_translocation" title="Species translocation">translocation operation</a>, the TVA Director of Information John Van went on <a href="/wiki/Public_relations" title="Public relations">damage control</a> in a subsequent NYT editorial, directing the blame towards the lack of adequate netting by the FWS.<sup id="cite_ref-van_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-van-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intervention_by_Carter,_exemption_from_ESA"><span id="Intervention_by_Carter.2C_exemption_from_ESA"></span>Intervention by Carter, exemption from ESA</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Intervention by Carter, exemption from ESA"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After a long battle, Congress exempted the Tellico Dam from the Endangered Species Act by adding a <a href="/wiki/Rider_(legislation)" title="Rider (legislation)">rider clause</a> to an unrelated <a href="/wiki/Public_works" title="Public works">public works</a> bill. On September 25, 1979, President <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter">Jimmy Carter</a> signed the bill exempting the Tellico project from the ESA. Carter had previously and publicly opposed the completion of the dam, but administration officials speculated that an attempt to veto the bill would result in legislative retaliation against Carter's plans for revising treaties for the <a href="/wiki/Panama_Canal_Zone" title="Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a>'s ownership, and the establishment of a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Education" title="United States Department of Education">federal department for educational affairs</a>, two issues the Carter administration prioritized for passing.<sup id="cite_ref-WaPoCarter_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WaPoCarter-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flooding_of_Cherokee_native_land">Flooding of Cherokee native land</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Flooding of Cherokee native land"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah_v._Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority">Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg/220px-Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="358" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg/330px-Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg/440px-Draught_of_the_Cherokee_Country.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="2278" /></a><figcaption>1765 map of Overhill Cherokee tribal towns, the river shown is the Little Tennessee prior to its inundation for the Tellico Project.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1979, three Cherokee individuals and two Cherokee bands/organizations filed suit against the TVA to restrain the flooding of sacred homeland in <a href="/wiki/Sequoyah_v._Tennessee_Valley_Authority" title="Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority">Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority</a>, to no avail. Archeological surveys and salvage excavations were conducted in some areas because this area was known to have contained numerous 18th-century <a href="/wiki/Overhill_Cherokee" title="Overhill Cherokee">Overhill Cherokee</a> towns. But the sites of Tanasi, <a href="/wiki/Chota_(Cherokee_town)" title="Chota (Cherokee town)">Chota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Toqua_(Tennessee)" title="Toqua (Tennessee)">Toqua</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tomotley" title="Tomotley">Tomotley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Citico_(Tellico_archaeological_site)" class="mw-redirect" title="Citico (Tellico archaeological site)">Citico</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mialoquo" class="mw-redirect" title="Mialoquo">Mialoquo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tuskegee,_Tennessee" class="mw-redirect" title="Tuskegee, Tennessee">Tuskegee</a> were all flooded by the reservoir behind the dam.<sup id="cite_ref-umn_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-umn-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of these had been occupied by ancestors of the Cherokee for up to 1,000 years, based on the earthwork <a href="/wiki/Platform_mounds" class="mw-redirect" title="Platform mounds">platform mounds</a> built at their centers by people of the <a href="/wiki/South_Appalachian_Mississippian_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="South Appalachian Mississippian culture">South Appalachian Mississippian culture</a>. In their succeeding long occupancy, the Cherokee had built councilhouses on top of the mounds. In addition, other prehistoric sites, dating to as early as the <a href="/wiki/Archaic_period_in_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaic period in the Americas">Archaic period</a>, were flooded. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_impacts">Other impacts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Other impacts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town of <a href="/wiki/Morganton,_Tennessee" title="Morganton, Tennessee">Morganton</a> and its port was submerged by the Tellico reservoir.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The British colonial <a href="/wiki/Fort_Loudon_(Tennessee)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Loudon (Tennessee)">Fort Loudon</a> was relocated from its original site by excavation of soil required to raise the site by 17 ft (5 m), and the fort was reconstructed into a <a href="/wiki/Fort_Loudoun_State_Historic_Park" title="Fort Loudoun State Historic Park">state park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Translocation_of_snail_darters">Translocation of snail darters</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Translocation of snail darters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Remnant populations of the snail darter were later removed from the Little Tennessee River and translocated into other streams.<sup id="cite_ref-Plater_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Plater-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In total, 219 snail darters were removed from the Tellico basin.<sup id="cite_ref-watery_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-watery-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of these were transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Hiwassee_River" title="Hiwassee River">Hiwassee River</a> in <a href="/wiki/Polk_County,_Tennessee" title="Polk County, Tennessee">Polk County</a> in southeast Tennessee, and were established by 1982. The <a href="/wiki/Holston_River" title="Holston River">Holston</a>, <a href="/wiki/French_Broad_River" title="French Broad River">French Broad</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nolichucky_River" title="Nolichucky River">Nolichucky</a> rivers of central <a href="/wiki/East_Tennessee" title="East Tennessee">East Tennessee</a> have also been established as habitats for the snail darter.<sup id="cite_ref-USGSdarter_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USGSdarter-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Completion_and_recent_history">Completion and recent history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Completion and recent history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:224px;max-width:224px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Log buildings along a reservoir shoreline" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg/220px-Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg/330px-Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg/440px-Fort-loudoun-southeast-tn1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3840" data-file-height="2160" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:222px;max-width:222px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Concrete monument with view of reservoir in the background" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg/220px-Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="125" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg/330px-Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg/440px-Tanasi-monument-tn1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1915" data-file-height="1087" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">The original location of two historic sites, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Loudoun_(Tennessee)" title="Fort Loudoun (Tennessee)">Fort Loudoun</a>, the first British outpost in Tennessee (top),<sup id="cite_ref-kelly_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kelly-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Tanasi, a Cherokee tribal village that Tennessee's naming originated from (bottom),<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were permanently lost with Tellico Project's completion. Fort Loudoun would be reconstructed on a new site, and a monument was constructed near the original site of Tanasi.<sup id="cite_ref-callahan_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-callahan-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></div></div></div> <p>Tellico Reservoir began filling on November 29, 1979, after the gates were closed on the dam.<sup id="cite_ref-millsaps_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millsaps-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Still intent on development projects to improve the economic conditions of the Little Tennessee Valley, TVA began sales on lakefront acreage that the agency seized through eminent domain.<sup id="cite_ref-madden_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-madden-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many impacted landowners were unable to qualify to bid on their former properties.<sup id="cite_ref-holland_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holland-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Respective analysis of TVA's acquisition methods with the Tellico Project have been cited as <a href="/wiki/Right_to_property" title="Right to property">abuse of property rights</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-venable_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-venable-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 1982, the Tellico Reservoir Development Agency (TRDA) was established by the Tennessee state legislature with state and TVA funding, to promote economic development initiatives in the Tellico region.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The TRDA assisted in the creation of several <a href="/wiki/Industrial_parks" class="mw-redirect" title="Industrial parks">industrial parks</a> for corporate investment seeking to reduce local unemployment. In September of the same year, the TVA proposed constructing <a href="/wiki/Hazardous_waste" title="Hazardous waste">toxic waste dumps</a> on Tellico-acquired sites.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of these development sites known as the Tellico Peninsula, was billed as the prime site in the Tellico area.<sup id="cite_ref-complicated_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-complicated-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite several attempts, the Tellico Peninsula site has remained largely undeveloped since site preparation work was completed in the 1980s, aside from a <a href="/wiki/Christensen_Shipyards" title="Christensen Shipyards">Christensen Shipyards</a> facility which closed following the <a href="/wiki/Great_Recession_in_the_United_States" title="Great Recession in the United States">Great Recession</a> in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-nash_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nash-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, proposals were announced for the site to be <a href="/wiki/Redeveloped" class="mw-redirect" title="Redeveloped">redeveloped</a> into a <a href="/wiki/Mixed-use_development" title="Mixed-use development">mixed-use community</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nash_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nash-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:TVA_Surplus.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/TVA_Surplus.png/400px-TVA_Surplus.png" decoding="async" width="400" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/TVA_Surplus.png/600px-TVA_Surplus.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/TVA_Surplus.png/800px-TVA_Surplus.png 2x" data-file-width="5024" data-file-height="1875" /></a><figcaption>The TVA's surplus witnessed substantial growth following the years of the Tellico Dam's completion partly due to the profits from the sale of Tellico-acquired land for private development.<sup id="cite_ref-holland_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-holland-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Resort_development">Resort development</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Resort development"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Tellico_Village,_Tennessee" title="Tellico Village, Tennessee">Tellico Village, Tennessee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rarity_Bay,_Tennessee" title="Rarity Bay, Tennessee">Rarity Bay, Tennessee</a></div> <p>The residential component of the failed Timberlake project was relaunched in late 1984 with the purchase of roughly 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) along the western shore of the Tellico Reservoir by Cooper Communities Inc. (CCI), a real estate firm based out of <a href="/wiki/Bella_Vista,_Arkansas" title="Bella Vista, Arkansas">Bella Vista, Arkansas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wilkerson_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wilkerson-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The development became a planned <a href="/wiki/Retirement_community" title="Retirement community">retirement community</a> known as <a href="/wiki/Tellico_Village,_Tennessee" title="Tellico Village, Tennessee">Tellico Village</a> that officially opened in March 1986.<sup id="cite_ref-Neely_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Neely-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> CCI promoted Tellico Village and the Tellico Reservoir at golf and boat conventions across the <a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern United States</a>. Since the development of Tellico Village, the Tellico area has drawn retirees from the Midwest and <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>, initiating a retirement-oriented real estate boom in the area.<sup id="cite_ref-chamberlain_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chamberlain-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the late 1990s and into the 2000s, the TVA was pressured by private development groups to release additional acreage that had been seized via eminent domain along the shoreline of several reservoirs. The intention was for predominantly <a href="/wiki/Golf_course" title="Golf course">golf course</a>-based residential resorts. In 1995, a 960-acre community known as <a href="/wiki/Rarity_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Rarity Bay">Rarity Bay</a> was constructed, including an equestrian center and 18-hole golf course. Mike Ross, the developer behind Rarity Bay built several additional resort developments on TVA's shoreline property, before being charged in federal court with mail fraud and money laundering in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-schaffer_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schaffer-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2002, the TVA board of directors approved the sale of preserved land on the eastern shore of Tellico Reservoir for a $750 million golf-course community known as Rarity Pointe.<sup id="cite_ref-awash_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-awash-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, Rarity Pointe was purchased by WindRiver Management LLC, leading to expansion of the site and the renaming of the community from Rarity Pointe to WindRiver.<sup id="cite_ref-FR-2017-09-15_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FR-2017-09-15-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Snail_darter_post-Tellico">Snail darter post-Tellico</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Snail darter post-Tellico"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The snail darter was removed from the Endangered Species list by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service on August 6, 1983. The fish was still classified as a threatened species because the Hiwassee River, where the snail darters from the Little Tennessee had been translocated, had a previous history of acid spills from freight train accidents.<sup id="cite_ref-tvahilltime_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvahilltime-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2021, the snail darter was removed as a threatened species, with the FWS reporting the snail darter population had recovered from any risk of endangerment.<sup id="cite_ref-kruesi_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kruesi-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aftermath_of_the_Tellico_project">Aftermath of the Tellico project</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Aftermath of the Tellico project"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg/220px-Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg/330px-Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg/440px-Morganton-tennessee-cemetery.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>The relocated Morganton Cemetery; the cove in the background is the former site of Morganton.</figcaption></figure> <p>As at 2022, the Tellico Dam remains the last dam to be built by the TVA.<sup id="cite_ref-udtrs_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-udtrs-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-trlmp_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trlmp-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until the events of the Tellico Project, the moral and economic value of building a dam was rarely questioned; dams were widely considered to represent progress and technological prowess. Throughout the 20th-century, the United States had built thousands of dams, often to generate hydroelectric power and provide flood control.<sup id="cite_ref-reisner_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reisner-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the 1950s, most of the adequate dam sites in the United States had been used, and it became increasingly difficult to justify new dam projects. Government agencies such as TVA, the <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Reclamation" class="mw-redirect" title="Bureau of Reclamation">Bureau of Reclamation</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_Engineers" title="United States Army Corps of Engineers">Army Corps of Engineers</a> continued to construct new dams, often at the behest of congressional representatives of impacted areas such as in the case of Tellico Dam. However, by the 1970s, the era of dam-building effectively ended in the U.S. with the Tellico Dam case illustrating changing attitudes.<sup id="cite_ref-reisner_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reisner-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Retrospective analysis of the Tellico Dam case has referred to the project as a <a href="/wiki/Pork_barrel" title="Pork barrel">pork barrel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-porkbarrel_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-porkbarrel-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1933, with the beginning of the pivotal <a href="/wiki/Norris_Dam" title="Norris Dam">Norris Project</a> to the end of the Tellico project in 1979, TVA had forcibly removed more than 125,000 residents of the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gaventa_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gaventa-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The removal of people remains a controversial talking point on the methods and morality of TVA's dam projects.<sup id="cite_ref-callahan_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-callahan-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1980s, TVA attempted the construction of a $83 million dam with an intent similar to Tellico, for tourism and economic development on the <a href="/wiki/Duck_River_(Tennessee)" title="Duck River (Tennessee)">Duck River</a> near the city of <a href="/wiki/Columbia,_Tennessee" title="Columbia, Tennessee">Columbia, Tennessee</a>. The Columbia project resulted in failure, and the 1999 demolition of the unfinished dam as a result of environmental concerns and the escalating costs of completing the project.<sup id="cite_ref-aldrich_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aldrich-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2001, the 13,000-acre area set aside for the project was transferred for public use to the state of Tennessee.<sup id="cite_ref-chicagotrib_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chicagotrib-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tellico_Dam&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bussell_Island" 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