Major new deal dam projects: Tennessee Valle Authority (1 gen 1931 anni – 1 gen 1959 anni)

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TVA: An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control, reforestation, electricity generation, and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.

The most extensive New Deal environmental undertaking was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), which Roosevelt saw as the first step in modernizing the agrarian South. Funded by Congress in 1933, the TVA integrated flood control, reforestation, electricity generation, and agricultural and industrial development under one government-owned corporation. The TVA’s dams and hydroelectric plants provided cheap electric power for homes and factories and created much-needed jobs in an underdeveloped region reeling from the depression. The massive project won praise and emulation around the world

The Tennessee Valley Authority was one of the New Deal’s most far-reaching environmental projects. Between 1933 and 1952, the TVA built twenty dams and improved five others, taming the flood-prone Tennessee River and its main tributaries. The cheap hydroelectric power generated by the dams brought electricity to industries as well as hundreds of thousands of area residents, and artificial lakes provided extensive recreational facilities. Widely praised at the time, the TVA came under attack in the 1970s for its practice of strip mining and the pollution caused by its power plants and chemical factories.

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