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2 unusual facts about Blue Ridge Dam


Blue Ridge Dam

TEPCO challenged the constitutionality of the TVA Act in federal court, but the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the law in 1939, and TEPCO was forced to sell its assets to TVA for $78 million in August of that year.

Seasonal releases from the dam create Class I and Class II rapids on the Toccoa River for several miles downstream.



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