Welcome
to the Nashville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Nashville District
encompasses more than 59,000 square miles and includes parts of seven states. It
has regulatory, flood control, navigation, hydropower and recreational
responsibility for the Cumberland River watershed. It also has regulatory and
navigation responsibility for most of the Tennessee River watershed.
The Nashville District is able to carry out these demanding missions because of
more than 700 dedicated team members who make a difference every day. They
execute an annual budget of approximately $165 million of which more than half
goes to the operation of the ten lakes/reservoirs, 14 locks, and nine hydropower
plants.
For more than 118 years, the Nashville District and its team members have worked
to tame rivers, protect citizens and property, provide services and recreation
and to be there if disaster strikes. It is this commitment that continues today
and will flourish in the future as the District continues providing “Courageous
Service.”
In response to Hurricane Katrina, the Corps of Engineers
has developed several websites to facilitate the urgent distribution of
information regarding resources required to respond to this disaster.
Please click on the logo above to access the links to all of the Katrina related
websites.
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The
Corps and the Cumberland Basin Lakes in the Cumberland River Basin
managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers are experiencing lower water
levels this summer, lower perhaps than visitors and nearby residents are
accustomed to seeing. (more)
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HISTORY OF THE NASHVILLE DISTRICT
The Nashville District began it's service to the
region in 1888, when Lieutenant Colonel John W. Barlow became the
first Nashville District Engineer. His task was to oversee the
construction of a series of locks and dams on the Cumberland River.
Over the next 40 years, 15 locks and dams were built on the Cumberland
River and were kept in service until the modern, multi-purpose dams
now in operation were constructed.
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NASHVILLE DISTRICT MISSION STATEMENT
We serve
the region, the Corps, and the Nation by providing collaborative water
resource engineering solutions, world class public infrastructure
management, and environmental stewardship for the Cumberland
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DISTRICT FACTS ...
Our geographic area is represented by
14 Senators and 20 Congressmen. 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 our hydropower generation
plants in the Cumberland River Basin.
We annually generate about $44 million in
revenue from the sale of this power, revenue which is returned to the
U.S. Treasury.
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