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Originally posted by OriginalBama:
TVA owns the rights to the river and surrounding areas. Even if you have a pier on the river, by Federal law..... you must get a permit(which is free) to repair it. Its a law not many are aware of and most dont do it because they dont know, but it has been enforced in the past. TVA owns the dam system. Cities cannot override the Federal government. Nice question though... one not many have thought of I'm sure. But it aint gonna happen lol.... Personally i think TVA has too much authority and has overstepped the boundries which TVA was supposed to be. Ive been in the old NFDC building offices and seen people asleep at the desks... its just another government waste.....and speaking of waste, I worked as a laborer at Yellow Creek back in the early 80s,.... I saw tools, even a bulldozer buried because it was close to budget time and they needed to make the books balance(to cover up some of the waste). But walk out the gate with a screwdriver, and you got fired or prosecuted or both. What I'm saying is, the government, whether it be city, state or federal..... does what it wants to do... whenever it wants to do it...


Actually, Dams (meaning where someone locks in and locks out, tows, tugs, etc) are actually owned and operated by the Corps of Engineers. How did you miss that one?

The POWER OPERATIONS at the Dams (power generating units, gates, etc) are owned and operated by TVA. And we all need to Thank God for TVA, otherwise, look in your history books as to where even OUR area stood "before" TVA... the only living was being a dirt farmer, or if you were lucky, own a grocery store or Still, ...

Think about what you said here... Yes, TVA may very well have buried TOOLS, but Dozers? I think not... wanna know why they buried tools? Because of Congress/Senate... at that particular time, it was ILLEGAL for any TVA site to make money off tools and things, and could NOT, by law, sell them, or give them away.

Most of everything at Yellow Creek worth saving/and doling out to other sites was shipped to Hartsville Tn. and sites have gone for years to Hartsville to get things they needed..... Thankfully .... now Hartsville is now almost empty, except for storage of huge components (rotors, cylinders, shells, valves etc.)...

This is not rumor, this is what I KNOW.

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