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Our geographic area touches seven states and covers
59,000 squares miles. (click
here to view a map)
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This geographic area is represented by 14 senators
and 20 Congressmen.
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The Nashville District is comprised of 782 team
members, 50 percent of whom are in 49 field offices.
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In Fiscal Year 2010, Nashville District handled 3,610
regulatory actions, 97 percent of which were evaluated in less than
60 days.
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The Nashville District has the capacity to produce
more than 914 megawatts of clean electricity from nine hydropower
plants in the Cumberland River basin.
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These
hydropower plants had an availability rate in 2010 of 97.14 percent
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We annually generate about $44 million in revenue
from the sale of this power. Of this revenue, $32 million was
returned to the U.S. Treasury.
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This District operates and maintains 1,175
commercially navigable river miles, almost 10 percent of the total
within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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As of 2010, the District's flood control projects
have prevented more than $750 million in flood damages.
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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.
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More than 73 million tons of commodities passed
through these 14 locks in 2010.
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There were 47,000 commercial and recreational
lockages in 2010. Our locks are consistently operational for more
than the Corps of Engineers' goal of 97 percent of the time.
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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.
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The District's in-house divers make more than 200
dives each year, and have done so for 50 years without a single
accident.
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Chickamauga Lock on the Tennessee River has an
equally impressive safety record -62 years with no lost-time
accidents.
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Lakes in the Nashville District were the most popular
in the nation in 2010 and is number one in the Corps. 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.
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Five Nashville District lakes rank among the top 25
in Corps-wide visitation.
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In 2010, 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.
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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.
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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 that
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 that requires water storage over long periods of
time.
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The total capacity of water in Corps lakes is 4.07
million acre-feet.
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The total authorized municipal and industrial water
supply storage is 39,972 acre-feet.
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The Nashville District houses and 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 2010, Nashville District
Lakes had 2,303 generous volunteers who donated 31,367 hours of
service, with an estimated value of $1.28 million dollars
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.
