TVA

Kelsey Herbert and Madison Temple

Purpose of the TVAImprove navigation inTennessee River

Control destructiveFlood waters

Electricity generation

Accomplishments of the TVA

Includes three nuclear power plants, 11 coal-fired plants, 29 hydroelectric dams, five combustion-turbine plants and about 17000 miles of transmission lines

Electricity produced now reaches over 8 million residents of the Tennessee Valley

Largest public power system in the US

Leaders of the Tva

Chairman Bill Baxter

Director Skila Harris

David Lilienthal

Legacy of the TVA Succeeded provide electricity increase water supply provide recreational lakes create a series of lakes that form one long navigation channel from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Paducah, Kentucky stores excess water in flood season and lowers flood levels