Melton Hill Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Clinch River just south of Oak Ridge Tennessee United States. The dam is operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority which built the dam in the early 1960s to extend the Tennessee Valley’s continuous navigation channel up the Clinch as far as Clinton and to increase TVA’s overall power-generating capacity. The dam impounds the 5470-acre (2210 ha) Melton Hill Lake and is the only TVA tributary dam serviced by a navigation lock.
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