TVA Dam Safety team and university researchers dig into history to uncover the Tennessee Valley region’s worst floods.
Working with partners from the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Alabama and University of Memphis, TVA engineers peered far back into history – thousands of years – to analyze evidence from paleofloods.
What they found in caves and riverbanks revealed how extreme past floods were – and could be – and helped them ensure TVA’s dams and nuclear plants will withstand future storms.
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