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INTEGRATED RESOURCE
Stewardship
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TVA
manages the public benefits of navigation, flood control, power
supply, water quality, land use and recreation as an integrated
system.
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Benefits
to the Valley in 2000
- Nation’s
fifth-largest river system
- 800 miles of
commercially navigable waterway
- 52 million tons
of goods shipped
- 35 dams for
flood control
- $173 million
potential flood damage avoided
- 11,000 miles
of public shoreline
- $308 million
in tax-equivalent payments to Valley states and counties
- $770 million
of capital investment in the Valley
- $850 million
TVA payroll
- 13,145 TVA employees
- $13 million
of economic development loan commitments to Valley businesses
- $850 million
spent with Valley firms for products and services
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