Interesting Facts about the Nashville District
- Our geographic
area touches seven states and covers 59,000 squares miles. (click
here to view a map)
- This geographic
area is represented by 14 senators and 20 Congressmen.
- The Nashville
District is comprised of 702 team members, 50% of whom are in 49 field
offices.
- In Fiscal Year
03, Nashville District handled 3,060 regulatory actions, 97% of which
were evaluated in less than 60 days.
- The Nashville
District has the capacity to produce more than 914 megawatts of clean
electricity, enough to power the needs of a city the size of
Nashville, at nine different hydropower generations plants in the
Cumberland River Basin.
-
 These
hydropower plants had an availability rate in 2005 of 97.14%
- We annually
generate about $44 million in revenue from the sale of this power.
This revenue is returned to the U.S. Treasury.
- This District
operates and maintains 1,175 commercially navigable river miles;
almost 10% of the total within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- As of 2005, the
District's flood control projects have prevented more than $1.96
billion in flood damages.
- District team
members operate and maintain 14 navigation lock projects; nine on the
Tennessee River, four on the Cumberland River, and one on the Clinch
River.
- More than 74
million tons of commodities passed through these 14 locks during 2005.
- There were 40,111
commercial and recreational lockages on these locks in 2003. Our
locks are consistently available for more than the Corps of Engineers'
goal of 97 percent of the time.
- Wilson Lock in
Alabama has the highest single lift east of the Rocky Mountains,
between 93 and 100 feet, depending on the current river water level.
- The District's
in-house divers make more that 200 dives each year, and have done so
for 47 years without a single accident.
- Chickamauga Lock
on the Tennessee River has an equally impressive safety record -- 60
years with no lost-time accidents.
- Lakes in the
Nashville District were the most popular in the nation in 2005. More
than 36 million people visited our 10 lakes last year. These
recreation users had an economic
impact on the region
of nearly $877 million dollars.
- Five Nashville
District lakes rank among the top 25 in Corps-wide visitation.
- In 2000, the
District’s 70 commercial concessionaires produced $1.3 million in
profit, and returned more than $300,000 to the U.S. Treasury in rent
payments for all leases.
- The District's
Lake Cumberland has the only operating gristmill in the Corps, a
National Historic site which has survived fire, rebuilding, and time.
The mill has a 40-feet overshot waterwheel, the largest of its kind in
the world.
-
Two District Lakes,
Lake Cumberland and Dale Hollow, make it possible for National Fish
Hatcheries to be co-located just downstream. Water, which is
withdrawn from deep in the pool, supplies the Hatcheries with the
necessary water temperature which trout require to flourish. And
those same structures, along with Center Hill Dam, make it possible
for those species to do well downstream of the dams because of their
inherent mission of flood damage reduction which requires water
storage over long periods of time.
- Nashville
District operates the Corp's only Volunteer Clearinghouse for the
thousands of volunteers willing to donate their time at Corps Lakes
and projects that need them. Volunteers play an important role in
protecting natural resources and maintaining recreation facilities.
In 2005, Nashville District Lakes had 2,256 generous volunteers who
donated 54,893 hours of service, with an estimated value of $963,372.
Nationwide, the Volunteer Clearinghouse coordinated the activities of
more that 53,200 volunteers who donated a total of 1.3 million hours
of their time performing work at Corps projects, time valued at more
than $22.6 million.
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