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Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway - Wikipedia

The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway is a 234-mile (377 km) artificial U.S. waterway built in the 20th century from the Tennessee River to the junction of the ...

Twenty-Five Years Later, Tenn-Tom Remains an Economic Engine

Today, the Tenn-Tom is known as a modern engineering wonder. The waterway is the largest project of its kind ever constructed in our country.

After 30 years, Tenn-Tom Waterway remains both a political and ...

Watching the locks and dams operate along the waterway underscores the engineering marvel of the Tenn-Tom, but the political feats necessary ...

Why Use the Waterway? | TTW

Slack water conditions of the Tenn-Tom mean that barges can use a smaller horsepower towboat which reduces fuel costs and shipping costs. Returning empty barges ...

Economic Impacts of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

The original cost of waterway construction was approximately $2.0 billion. Converting this cost to today's inflation-adjusted values reveals a contemporary ...

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway | Navigable, Shipping, Recreation

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, American waterway linking the Tennessee River in northeastern Mississippi with the Tombigbee River in western Alabama.

The Fizzling of 200-Year-Old Dream - The Washington Post

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway -- or Tenn-Tom, as it is popularly known -- is the most ambitious project ever undertaken by the Army Corps of ...

Figures of Speech: Fish We've Never Seen - Southern Changes

Congressman Bevill: The dream of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway began in the early 1800s. It has been a long fight, an uphill fight, but today ...

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Divide Cut dedicated May 6, 1984

This is a historical video of the dedication ceremony for the completion of the 27-mile divide section of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway ...

Bikepacking along Tenn-Tom Waterway

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Mississippi features miles of gravel roads that resemble Rails To Trails.

Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, affectionately known as the “Tenn-Tom”, is located in the Mobile District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Built for the People - Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA

We're honoring 32 of the dams TVA built as a direct result of the Unified Development of the Tennessee River System plan—bringing flood control, electrification ...

Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway | A Landing a Day

Ten years of work, at a cost of nearly $500 million, were needed to excavate a canal through the divide that separates the watersheds of the ...

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway - Mississippi Encyclopedia

The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is a connection between these two major river systems in the southern United States that was constructed by the US Army Corps ...

Touring the Tenn-Tom Waterway - Just A Bit Loopy

This 234-mile marvel, a products of 1984, joins the Tennessee River and the Tombigbee River system. It cost nearly $2 billion and has 10 locks and dams.

Watch Modern Marvels Season 2 Online | HISTORY Channel

Chronicles one of the most incredible engineering feats of all time: construction of the 51-mile canal that took 10 years to build and employed over 40,000 ...

Exploring Tims Ford Dam: Engineering Marvel and Recreational ...

The project was part of a broader initiative by the TVA to manage water resources in the Tennessee River basin, which spans multiple states.

America's Achilles' Heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control ...

Chaining the Mississippi to its current channel ... This marvel of modern civil engineering has, for fifty-five years, done what many thought impossible—impose ...

Marvel Slab, Cahaba River - Alabama Rivers and Streams Network

Dams can improve commerce by increasing our ability to navigate through waterways carrying goods from the Tennessee River to ... events in modern history.