Show Record Record Breaking Breaking Dams Are Constructed During the Year ear The Kentucky dam on the Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- river near Paducah became the dam in operation under I the Tennessee Valley authority Its It mile mile reservoir longest in TV TVA A provides 4 2 million feet acre-feet of water water water wa wa- ter storage space apace which would be enough to absorb two feet of Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- river flood nood crest at Cairo Illinois Nearing completion is Fontana Fontana Fontana Fon- Fon tana largest and highest dam inthe in inthe inthe the eastern United States on the Little Tennessee river In North Car Car- olina It is the only other TV TVA A dam now under construction Biggest rolled fill earthen dam inthe in inthe inthe the world is the Denison Texas Tel dam on the Red river completed early in the year by army engi engl- Its acre lake backs 80 miles mUes up the Red river to Gainesville Gainesville Gainesville Gaines Gaines- ville Texas and 60 miles mlles up the Washita river to Ravia Okla To save Oklahoma's Cumberland oilfield oil oilfield oilfield field the Washita was detoured by construction of 4 miles of dikes California's vast power and and irrigation irrigation irrigation gation program moved forward as the last concrete was poured on on Shasta second highest dam in the world 60 feet Water from the Friant dam in the the- San Joaquin valley valley valley val val- ley began on on June 4 to pour through the new Madera canal Army engineers completed the concrete tt Norfork dam on the North NorthFork NorthFork NorthFork Fork river in Arkansas to supply power and nd control floods Hoods in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri |