Transmission & Operations Surveys Tennessee Valley Authority The History of Surveying at TVA The Kentucky Association of Professional Surveyors 45th Annual.

Transmission & Operations Surveys

Tennessee Valley AuthorityTennessee Valley AuthorityThe History of Surveying at TVA

The Kentucky Association of Professional Surveyors

45th Annual Conference & Exhibition

Dallas Sluss


KAPSKAPS

• TVA Surveying organization

• General History and metrics about TVA

• TVA Surveying History

• 1940s video

• Barry will discuss Surveying – Mapping – Legal Descriptions

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TVA HistoryTVA History

• Federal Corporation– Created by Congress on May 18, 1933– Seven State Region (Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky,

Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia)

– Major Offices in Knoxville, Chattanooga & Nashville, TN & Muscle Shoals, AL

General History



• Nation’s Largest Wholesale Power Producer– Generating capacity of 31,500 megawatts

– Serves 8.3 million people over 80,000 sq. miles through 158 power distributors

– Power Facilities• 3 nuclear plants• 11 coal fired plants• 29 hydroelectric dams• 6 Combined Cycle (gas)• 9 Combustion Turbines (gas)• 1 pumped storage• 17,000 miles of transmission lines

General History



• Steward of Tennessee River– Integrated Resource Management

• Land

– 480,000 acres of recreation lakes

– 47+ Reservations & Reservoirs

• Water

– 5th Largest US river system

– 11,000 miles of public shoreline

– 650 navigable miles

» 9 dams from Paducah, KY to Knoxville, TN

» 20 dams for flood control

General History



• Environment

– Soil Conservation

– Fertilization

– Fish & Wildlife Habitats

– Mosquito control (aka Vector control)

– Water Quality

General History


TVA Surveying HistoryTVA Surveying History

• Planimetric & Topographic– 7 1/2’ Quadrangle

• Cooperative arrangement with USGS

• 896± Quad sheets

– Photogrammetry• Techniques created and mastered by TVA & USGS

• Aerial Photography archive


TVA Surveying History

TVA Surveying History

Aerial Photograph

Finished Quad Map



Planimetric & Topographic



• Planimetric & Topographic– War Services (WW II)

• 500,000 sq. miles of foreign soil mapped

• 60,000 tons of elemental phosphorus used for incendiaries, smoke screens, etc. (3/5 produced)

• Cherokee Dam built in 16 months

• Peak employeement of 42,000

• Douglas Dam built in 12 months 17 days

• Major power supplier of Oak Ridge National Laboratory



• Control– Horizontal

– Vertical



Control Surveying



Control Surveying



Control Surveying



Control Surveying



Control Surveying



Control Surveying



• Reservoir / Reservation– Hydrographic

• Navigation

• Stream Gages

– Relocations• Road

• Utility

• Cemetery


TVA SurveyingHistory

Hydro-graphic



Road Relocations– Relocations

• Road



Cemetery Relocations



• Reservoir / Reservation– Cadastral

• Preliminary Land Ownership (PLO)

• Land Acquisition

– Fee

– Easement

• C - Stage

• Land Sale

• D - Stage



Cadastral Plane Table Mapping









Cadastral Field Book



Cadastral Computation Sheet



Cadastral Solar Observation



Reservation MapsLand Acquisition

C-StageLand SaleD-StageLand SaleSub-stationTrans-mission


TVA SurveyingTVA Surveying

• Equipment– Total Stations

– GPS Receivers

– Electronic Levels

– Scanner

Modern Surveying



• Survey Types– Control

– Topographic

– Engineering

– Cadastral• Land Sale

• Boundary Marking

• Land Acquisition

– Industrial Metrology

Modern Surveying



Modern Surveying



Modern Surveying



• TVA Web Site– www.tva.gov

• Map Store– 1-800-MAPS-TVA or www.tva.gov/mapstore

• Survey Control– Sheree Vincent 423-751-7644 or

[email protected]• General Surveying

– Dallas Sluss 423-751-2255 or [email protected]– Barry Savage 423-751-2880 or [email protected]

Contacts

Transmission & Operations Surveys Tennessee Valley Authority The History of Surveying at TVA The Kentucky Association of Professional Surveyors 45th Annual.

Documents

history of surveying

tva tva surveying history

al general history slide

quad map slide

navigable miles

miles of foreign soil

miles of public shoreline

hydroelectric dams