USGS

Drought-related Impacts on Municipal and Major Self-supplied Industrial Water Withdrawals in Tennessee -- Part B

U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 84-4074

by Frank M. Alexander, Lee A. Keck, Lewis G. Conn, and Stanley J. Wentz


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Goals and objectives

Previous investigations

Data collection and presentation

Demography

Acknowledgment

Clinch River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Melton Hill Reservoir

Norris Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water supply adequacy analysis

Lower Cumberland River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Cheatham Reservoir

J. Percy Priest Reservoir

Old Hickory Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Upper Cumberland Riverbasin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Center Hill Reservoir

Cordell Hull Reservoir

Dale Hollow Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Duck-Buffalo River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Normandy Reservoir

Columbia Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Elk-Shoal River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Tims Ford Reservoir

Woods Reservoir

Ground water

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

French Broad River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology.

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Douglas Reservoir

Ground water

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Hatchie River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Ground water

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Holston River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Boone Reservoir

Cherokee Reservoir

Fort Patrick Henry Reservoir

South Holston Reservoir

Watauga Reservoir

Wilbur Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Memphis area basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Obion-Forked Deer River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Lower Tennessee River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Apalachia Reservoir

Toccoa Reservoir

Chickamauga Reservoir

Nickajack Reservoir

Parksville Reservoir

Ocoee No. 2 Reservoir

Ocoee No.3 Reservoir

Watts Bar Reservoir

Ground water

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Upper Tennessee River basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Calderwood Reservoir

Chilhowee Reservoir

Fort Loudoun Reservoir

Tellico Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Tennessee River Western Valley basin

Basin description

Topography

Hydrology

Surface water

Major reservoirs

Pickwick Landing Reservoir

Wilson Reservoir

Kentucky Reservoir

Groundwater

Demography

Public and self-supplied commercial and industrial water users

Water-supply adequacy analysis

Potential impacts of drought-related water-supply problems

Economic impacts

Environmental impacts

Social impacts

Responses to drought conditions (some proposals)

Emergency preparedness program

Water conservation

Public information and education

Ordinances

Alternate water-supply sources

Rehabilitation of existing water-supply facilities

Weather modification

Dredging

Water resources planning

Institutional

Federal, state, and local agencies responsibilities and roles

Next step or future water-supply study activities

Summary

Selected references

Appendix I. Inventory of public and large, self-supplied commercial and industrial water users in Tennessee*

Appendix II. Background information on other water-related problems and issues affecting available water supplies*

 


 

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