Record Group 142 Tennessee Valley Authority Engineering, Design, and Construction Division Project Histories and Reports, 1937-1974 National Archives Identifier 890185 This series consists of project histories and periodic reports documenting the planning, design, and construction of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) projects. Photographs, drawings, charts, and maps are filed among the reports. Project histories and reports present detailed and comprehensive accounts of TVA's progress in designing and constructing large engineering projects, such as dams and power-generating plants. Records in this series reference the following TVA projects: Wilson Dam, Norris Dam, Wheeler Dam, Pickwick Landing, Hiwassee Dam, Guntersville Dam, Chickamauga Dam, Gilbertsville Dam, Watts Bar Dam, Fort Loudon Dam, Hales Bar Dam, Cherokee Dam, Appalachia Dam, Chatuge Dam, Nottely Dam, Ocoee Dam, Fontana Dam, South Holston Dam, Watauga Dam, Douglas Dam, Wilbur Dam, Johnsonville Steam Plant, Boone Dam, Fort Patrick Henry Dam, Widows Creek Steam Plant, Godwin Phosphate Plant, Kingston Steam Plant, Shawnee Steam Plant, Colbert Steam Plant, Memphis Area Steam Plant, Jon Sevier Steam Plant, Gallatin Steam Plant, Chilhowee Dam, Colbert Steam Plant, Melton Hill Dam, Steam Plant G, Shannon Creek Project, Knoxville Area Steam Plant, Paradise Steam Plant, Bull Rum Steam Plant, Beech River Project, Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Project, Nickajack Dam, Decatur Area Steam Plant, Lost Creek Dam, Piney Creek Dam, Browns Creek Dam, Tellico Dam, Dry Creek Dam, Big Creek Dam, Tims Ford Dam, Can Creek Development Project, Clear Creek Project or Bristol Flood Protection Project, Land Between the Lakes Projects, Bear Creek Dam, Oostenaula Creek Dam, U.S. Public Health Service - TVA Composting Plant, Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Columbia - Upper Duck River Project, Sugar Creek Dam, Sevierville Flood Protection Project, Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant, Coeburn Flood Control Project, Oliver Springs Redevelopment Project, Cumberland Steam Plant, Sequoyah Nuclear Plant, Buffalo Scenic Spillway, Little Bear Creek Dam, Mills River Dam, Harriman - Rockwood Industrial Corridor, Thomas H. Allen Steam Plant, Shelby Substation and Transmission Line, Johnson City Composting Plant, Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, Briceville Flood Relief Project, Hartsville Nuclear Plant, Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant, Camp Breckenridge, Timberlake New Community, and Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant. This series documents the technical development and growth of electrical power in the Tennessee River Valley Region. Box 1 0 – 12 Engineering Data Division 1935 0 – 13 Progress Reports – Geology 1935 0 – 15 Progress Reports - Engineering Services Division 1934 0 – 18 Highway & Railroad Division Progress Reports 1934 – 1935 0 – 21 Construction Plant Division Monthly Progress Report 1934 0 – 22 Progress Reports Construction & Maintenance Division 1935 0 – 23 Reservoir Clearance Division Monthly Progress Reports 1934 – 1935 0 – 25 Annual Reports June 30, 1934 - 1934 Box 2 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1935 - 1938 Box 3 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1939 - 1942 Box 4 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1943 - 1949 Box 5 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1950 - 1956 Box 6 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1957 - 1962 Box 7 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1963 - 1968 Box 8 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1969 - 1976 part Box 9 0 – 25 Annual Reports 1976 cont. – 1982 Box 10 0-25 Annual Reports 1983 – 1986 0-26-1 Chattanooga Office Progress Reports by Duncan Charlton 0-26-2 Progress Report Field Investigation Section Box 11 0-26-3 Progress Reports Navigation & General Studies 0-26-4 Progress Reports Hydrography & Silt Investigation 0-26-5 Progress Report General Engineering & Geology Division 0-26-6 Progress Reports – Flood Control 0-26-7 Compilation, Research & Forecasting Unit Progress Report 0-26-8 Water Resources Inventory- CWA March 1934 0-26-9 Mapping and Aerial Photography Jan. 1935 0-26-10 Progress Reports – Study of French Broad River 0-26-11 Progress Reports – Engineering Planning Section 0-27 Control of Property & Development Adjacent to TVA Construction Centers 0-28 Investment Control Construction Plant Division 0-31 Justification of Increases in 1938 Budget Estimates- Construction Plant Division 0-32 Cofferdam Unwatering 0-33 Index To Construction Plant Bulletins 0-34 Construction Plant Bulletins Vol. 1 0-34 Construction Plant Bulletins Vol. 2 part Box 12 0-34 Construction Plant Bulletins Vol. 2 cont. 0-34 Construction Plant Bulletins Vol. 3 0-34 Construction Plant Bulletins Vol. 4 (no Vol. 5 found) 0-34 Construction Plant Bulletins Vol. 6 Box 13 0-36 Suggestions For Possible Improvements in Engineering & Construction 0-37 Conveyor Installation 0-39 Vibrator Screen Designs & Application to Concrete Aggregate Preparation Plants 0-40 Modern Trend In Construction Equipment 0-42 Gasoline Locomotive Selection 0-44 Force Account 0-46 Material Concerning the Construction Equipment Policy 0-48 Engineering & Construction Department Construction Equipment Policy 0-50 Construction Plant Operations 0-58 Recent Improvements in Construction Layouts 0-59 Project Placement Chart of Major Construction Equipment 0-61 Field Methods For Pressure Grouting Foundation of Boulder Dam 0-64 Aggregate Reclaiming Tunnel Detailed Cost Analysis 0-67 Construction Plant Bulletins – Mailing List Distribution 0-68 Comparison of Unit Construction Cost 0-70 Equipment Record Samples 0-75 Equipment Policies 0-78 Construction Plant Operations 0-81 Form Work Costs 0-87 Equipment & Plant Depreciation 0-88 Effect of Land Grant Railroad Freight Differential 0-89 Training Financial Statement 0-91 Cost Memo To Federal Power Commission 0-93 Allocation of Costs In Multiple-Use Projects 0-94 Navigation and Flood Control Program 0-95 Construction Costs on TVA Projects 0-96 Study of Design Costs 0-97 Estimating Data Requested by Mr. G. Gale Dixon 0-98 Uniform Methods of Distributing Costs of Job Service Systems 0-99 Meeting of TVA Engineers at Pickwick Landing Dam Sept. 24-25, 1937 0-100 TVA Office Building 0-101 Truckable Unit House 0-102 Water Supply – Wheeler & Pickwick Dams 0-103 Camp Management Functions 0-104 Program of Procedure in Construction Community Design 0-105 Camp Water Supply and Sewerage Facilities 0-106 Dwelling Rentals on TVA Properties 0-107 Flood Protection for the City of Chattanooga, TN 0-109 Effect of Storage At Chickamauga 0-110 Effect of Storage at Norris, Fontana, & Fowler Bend Box 14 0-111 Millions For Flood Control Hundreds For Flood Prevention 0-112 Petition of Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission To TVA 0-113 Budget Circular no. 338 on Flood Control Studies 0-114 Certain Flood Problems In The Tennessee Valley - Report 0-115 Flood Storage Dams Above Paducah 0-116 #1 Flood control by authority dams by Sherman M. Woodward July 1936 0-117 Report of Flood Control Consultants 0-118 Holston River Power Company Projects 0-121 Chattanooga Flood Control by E. L. Chandler Oct. 1936 0-122 Chattanooga Flood Control Survey 0-123 Dr. A. E. Morgan’s Talk Before Chattanooga Flood Protection District Comm. 0-125 Relations of Tennessee Flood Control To Mississippi River Flood Control 0-127 TVA Flood Relief Operations 1937 0-128 Effect of August 1936 Florence Discharges on Mississippi River Low Flows 0-129 Chattanooga Flood Control Survey – notes 0-130 Photographs of the 1937 Flood {SOME SMALL IMAGES } 0-131 TVA Water Control Operations January 1937 Flood 0-132 Letter to A. F. Blaess on Flood Control 0-133 Value of Flood Height Reduction to the Alluvial Valley – Lower Miss. River 0-134-1 Report # 0-134-1 Information For Consultants Feb 3, 1941 0-134-2 Report # 0-134-2 Information For Consultants March 14, 1941 0-134-3 Report # 0-134 –3 Information For Consultants March 14, 1941 part Box 15 0-134-3 Report # 0-134-3 Information For Consultants July 38, 1941 cont. 0-134-4 Report # 0-134-4 Information For Consultants Sept. 15, 1941 0-134-5 Report # 0-134-5 Information For Consultants Jan. 5,1942 0-134-6 Report # 0-134-6 Information For Consultants Feb. 24,1942 0-134-7 Report # 0-134-7 Information For Consultants June 15,1942 0-134-7A Report To Consultants Status of Upper Holston Projects 0-134-8 Report # 0-134-8 Information For Consultants Oct. 5, 1943 0-134-9 Report # 0-134-9 Information For Consultants May 28, 1943 0-134-10 Report # 0-134-10 Information For Consultants July 19, 1942 0-134-11 Report # 0-134-11 Information For Consultants Sept. 14, 1943 0-134-12 Report # 0-134-12 Information For Consultants Dec. 7, 1943 0-134-13 Report # 0-134-13 Information For Consultants July 11, 1944 0-134-14 Report # 0-134-14 Information For Consultants October 2, 1944 0-134-15 Report # 0-134-15 Information For Consultants May 26, 1947 Box 16 0-134-16 Report # 0-134-16 Information For Consultants May 26-28 1947 0-134-17 Report # 0-134-17 Information For Consultants April 25-26, 1949 0-134-18 Report # 0-134-18 Information For Consultants July 24-26, 1950 0-134-19 Report # 0-134-19 Information For Consultants August 11-12, 1952 0-134-20 Report # 0-134-20 Information For Consultants July 22-23, 1954 0-135 Water Level Fluctuation for Mosquito Control 1938 Season 0-136 R Manual For Soil erosion Control Engineering Phase Oct. 13, 1939 0-137 Forester’s Daily Tasks and Varied 0-138 On The Diseases of Plants, Animals & Government Employees 0-140 Plans With Life Preserve 0-141 Fish Ladders in Dams 0-142 Forestry Division Work in The Valley July 1936 0-143 Third World Power Conference & Second Congress on Large Dams Sept. 1936 0-144 Leisure Time In An Industrial Democracy 0-145 Report # 3 Permanent Management of TVA Lands & Waters March 18, 1937 Box 17 0-146 Forest Influence Investigations At The Appalachian Forest Experiment Station 0-147 Passenger-Carrying Boat Service Norris Lake Forest 0-148 Undeveloped Mineral Resources 0-149 Future Mineral Development in TVA Area Dec.