TVA Biologists Find Rare “Livers of the Rivers”

Tennessee Valley Authority

                                                                                                                      (Photo: TVA)

TVA biologists ended the summer by surveying the livers of Elk River tailwaters — a 130-mile stream that flows from the base of Tims Ford Dam in Lincoln County, Tennessee to Alabama’s Wheeler Reservoir.

The presence of the water-filtering pigtoes, heelsplitters, washboards and the federally threatened rabbitsfoot continue to provide evidence that the Elk’s aquatic ecosystem below the impoundment is improving since TVA’s 2004 decision to cease all generation on the river between mid-April to mid-October.

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