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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Tennessee Valley Authority"”.
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Retrofitting the Tennessee Valley Authority
As the flagship of the New Deal, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was a triumph of regional and environmental design that has since fallen on hard times. When writer James Agee toured the region in 1935, he described the massive dam construction underway as a great skeleton across the valley, …
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MANNING THE TVA: WHITE MASCULINITIES AND ENGINEERING AT THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1933-1953
… individual and institutional identities at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) between 1933 and 1953 through a model of multiple white masculinities. Predominantly drawing on oral histories, autobiographical text, and correspondence by and involving TVA engineers and administrators, it shows …
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Assessing the costs and benefits of native plant species for electric transmission line right-of-way revegetation within the Tennessee Valley Authority power service area
… I synthesized cost information obtained from the Tennessee Valley Authority regarding ROW planting and maintenance and data collected from a feasibility study of ROWs planted with NWSG. Revegetation with NWSG was found to be 6% more expensive than ECSG. The degree of woody suppression to make NWSG …
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The Occurence, Abundance and Distribution of Populations of Larval Fishes in Wheeler Reservoir, Alabama
… and Wildlife Development Branch, United States Tennessee Valley Authority, Florence, Alabama.
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Cultural Modification in Rural Appalachia: Changes as Perceived by Persons Living through the Transformations Created by the ARC.
… by other redevelopment agencies, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), and the Area Redevelopment Agency (ARA). What was not in the original plan, however, was keeping an enormously rich existent culture alive. Having effected tremendous …
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Effects of certain fertilizer and lime treatments on yield, chemical composition, and vegetative population of a pasture and on certain properties of Coeburn silt loam
… Experiment Station, in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority has conducted a pasture experiment on Coeburn Silt Loam in Wise County, Virginia. Several different fertilizer treatments with and without lime, were used to evaluate their effect upon pasture vegetation. The purpose of …
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Sex roles in prehistoric Alabama: a bioarchaeological investigation of the Bluff Creek (1lu59) site using paleopathological and trauma analysis
In the 1930’s and 1940’s the Tennessee Valley Authority conducted excavations of thousands of prehistoric human remains in the Middle Tennessee River Valley of Alabama. This research focuses on the prehistoric site of Bluff Creek (1Lu59) and uses a stratified random sample to study how sex roles …
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Relay coordination with multiple breaker-in/breaker-out stations on the transmission line
… line or other equipment connected to the line. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) planners want to add multiple breaker-in/breaker-out stations on a two terminal transmission lines to reduce the number of Customer Connection Point Interruption (CCPI). This paper discusses the difficulty of setting …
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The Dam Fighters: Commons Environmental Rhetoric, Rhetorical Citizenship, and Local Ethos
… knowledge and voice concerns regarding a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) proposal between 1961 and 1972. The TVA proposal included a plan for comprehensive water resource development in western North Carolina which would have required in the implementation of 14 dams, flooding of more …
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The infrastructural complex : a return to big design
… plans of the Russian avant-garde or the Tennessee Valley Authority. In South Louisiana, territorial infrastructure has always been the interface between systems and complexes, and it is only through a rapid redeployment of new infrastructures across a sufficiently big scale that a viable, …
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Evidence of Hydro-Seismicity in the Tennessee Seismic Zone
… and discharge data were collected for three Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams (Chickamauga, Watts Bar and Douglas) on the Tennessee river in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone (ETSZ). Earthquake catalog data was also collected for the ETSZ from 1980-2018. Well levels from 2 U.S. …
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Diffuser Operations at Spring Hollow Reservoir
… County purchased a bubble-plume diffuser from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to oxygenate the hypolimnion to maintain long-term water quality. Spring Hollow currently operates the diffuser, with compressed air, during late summer months when DO levels in the hypolimnion reach approximately 4 …
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Evaluation and Use of Stream Temperature Prediction Models for Instream Flow and Fish Habitat Management
… Environmental Protection Agency), and RQUAL (Tennessee Valley Authority) stream temperature prediction models were evaluated. All models had high predictive ability with the majority of predictions, >80% for Back Creek (Roanoke County, VA) and >90% for the Smith River tailwater (SRT) (Patrick …
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An Environmental History of the New Deal in Mississippi and Florida
… on landscapes human and natural. In the hilly Tennessee River valley of northeast Mississippi, the federally-funded incorporation of the Tennessee Valley Authority led to an immediate transformation of landscape and the opening of novel possibilities within a newly-anointed “region” for the …
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Testing for relationship between diagnostic tests and DC BDV of in-serviced aged stator bars of a hydro generator
… (PI), partial discharge (PD), tan delta (TD) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) tests. The HV breakdown tests included very low frequency (VLF) and DC tests. Despite using this wider range of tests than has been used before, the test results still confirm earlier reports that there are no clear …
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The technical and economic feasibility of constructing an artificial wetland for Burra-Burra Creek in Ducktown Tennessee
The Copper Hill Basin area in Polk County, Tennessee has been severely impacted by more than a century of mining. The water found in the streams in this area is polluted with dissolved metals and sulfates. Burra-Burra Creek is one of the various waterways impacted and is located within the 130 km2 …
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Power for the public good : energy, race and class in the United States
… impact access to electricity? Utilizing the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) as the site of investigation, I approached the central question by asking three sub-questions: 1) does electric utility ownership mode matter in the delivery of energy services; 2) did discriminatory practices exist …
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An improved bus protection technique with dissimilar current transformers
… substation within the transmission system of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The relay software is a hybrid combining the percentage differential principle with the phase comparison scheme. The phase comparison scheme incorporates a newly developed square wave generator unique to this thesis. The …
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Power System Disturbance Analysis and Detection Based on Wide-Area Measurements
… sensitivity at different voltage levels in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) system is examined to analyze the visibility of disturbances from the point of view of wide-area measurements. The sensor placement strategy is proposed for better observability of the line trip disturbances. The …
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Considerations for the Design of 500-Kilovolt Stations.
The transmission of large bulk power over a great distance is being achieved economically at the 500 KV level by many major electric utilities. This is partially attributed to a station design which maximizes system reliability. Considerations of the causes of system disturbances and the roles of …
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