Template:Did you know nominations/Tellico Dam

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 15:23, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Tellico Dam

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Tennessee Valley Authority civil engineers monitoring hydraulics of a Tellico Dam prototype.

• ... that the Tellico Dam, built by the Tennessee Valley Authority built, was the subject of several controversies, including a Supreme Court case, and selling acquired land for private development? Source: Wheeler, William Bruce; McDonald, Michael J. (1986). TVA and the Tellico Dam, 1936-1979 A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. pp. 125–129. ISBN 9780870494925.
  "A watery end: Tellico Dam fueled debate, lawsuits, tears". Knoxville News Sentinel. August 26, 2012.
  "Decision in TVA v. Hill", U.S. Supreme Court, 437 U.S. 153, decided June 15, 1978
  • ALT1: ... that the completion of Tellico Dam by the Tennessee Valley Authority was halted by the Supreme Court in 1978, citing environmental concerns? Source: "Decision in TVA v. Hill", U.S. Supreme Court, 437 U.S. 153, decided June 15, 1978
  • ALT2: ... that the Tellico Dam project resulted in controversy for its acquisition of farmland for real estate development, loss of Native American sites, and damaging an endangered fish species habitat? Source: "Decision in TVA v. Hill", U.S. Supreme Court, 437 U.S. 153, decided June 15, 1978
    Gilmer, Robert A. (2011). "In the shadow of removal: historical memory, Indianness, and the Tellico Dam Project". University of Michigan
    Wheeler, William Bruce; McDonald, Michael J. (1986). "The Little Tennessee Valley and the Process of Modernization". TVA and the Tellico Dam, 1936-1979 A Bureaucratic Crisis in Post-Industrial America. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9780870494925.
    Madden, Tom (July 2, 1981). "Private land TVA claimed for lake to be given away to developers". UPI.
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5x expanded by AppalachianCentrist (talk). Self-nominated at 20:56, 29 October 2022 (UTC).

Detailed article, fine expansion on plenty of sources, offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I like ALT2 best. It's not clear how the image is related to the hook, and you don't see well what it shows in small size. No qpq needed yet. Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)