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TVA - Water Quality Javascript must be enabled for the correct page exhibit Skip to main content Toggle navigation Tennessee Valley Authority SearchWell-nighTVA Newsroom Careers Investors Energy Energy EnergyRight® Solutions Valley Renewable Energy Our Power System Transmission Technology Innovation Public Power Partnerships Environment Environment Environmental Stewardship Flood Management Lake Levels Recreation Shoreline Construction Permits Managing the River EconomicMinutiaeEconomicMinutiaeAttract Engage Serve Our Team Share this page You are here: Home Environment Environmental Stewardship Water Quality Keeping Water QualityUpperWe all know it:Wipewater is vitally important—for people, for plants and for animals. Though TVA doesn’t have the power to regulate water pollution, we superintendency tightly well-nigh quality of the water resources we manage. That’s why TVA monitors conditions in Valley waterways and supports a wholesale range of clean-water initiatives to protect and modernize this precious resource. TVA works to create upper water quality by collecting and sharing data with communities, industries and organizations; promoting wipe marinas and wipe boating; improving waters virtually TVA dams; and monitoring water quality throughout the watershed. River System Monitoring Knowledge is power, and the increasingly we know well-nigh the health of our reservoirs, rivers and streams, the largest we can protect them. Our waterways goody from regular checkups just like we do. If we know their condition and can identify changes over time, we can take largest superintendency of them. That’s why we sample 528 stream sites on a five-year rotation and 69 sites on 31 reservoirs on a two-year rotation. Read increasingly well-nigh reservoir ratings here. Managing Water Supply To alimony water quality high, water quantity has to be managed effectively. That ways balancing power production, navigational, industrial, agricultural and vital human needs—making sure there is unbearable water to go virtually under every circumstance, including drought conditions. Learn increasingly well-nigh how TVA promotes wise use, conservation and minutiae of the region's water resources.WipeMarinas andWipeBoating These programs focus on educating recreational boaters well-nigh unscratched practices for oil and gas control, sewage management and marina siting and operations. Marinas in compliance with the program have the right to fly the Tennessee ValleyWipeMarina Initiative flag. Download a reprinting of the Tennessee ValleyWipeMarina Guidebook (PDF, 457KB, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).Wipeboating events occur throughout the summer. Every boater can goody from these tips on how to alimony the water wipe to enhance their own wits on the water. Tailwater Improvements Hydropower has its obvious advantages, but it moreover has some risks for aquatic life, too. One is low concentration of oxygen in the water released through the dam during generation of power, which can stress marrow dwellers; flipside is the risk of a dry riverbed when power generation is shut off. Since the early 90s, TVA has spent increasingly than $60 million to remedy these two areas of trouble, pulsing releases through the dams to prevent dry beds and employing ingenious methods of introducing oxygen to depleted water. Read increasingly well-nigh how TVA has maintains water quality in the former problem in a true success story: Boosting Oxygen in the Tennessee Valley Tailwater. Boosting Oxygen in the Tennessee Valley Tailwaters Boosting Oxygen in the WaterWipeBoating Maintaining Wetted Riverbeds Preserving Life on the Elk River TVA Regional Watershed Offices Tailwater Improvements Tennessee ValleyWipeMarinas Across the Tennessee River Basin A collaboration between multiple organizations—including TVA, the Tennessee Aquarium and the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperation—Across the Tennessee River Basin aims to unhook conservation deportment for the Tennessee River watershed, one of the most diverse freshwater ecosystems in the world. The mainstem Tennessee River winds its way for roughly 650 miles through Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, when into Tennessee, and finally into Kentucky, where it empties into the Ohio River. Streams from these states, as well as North Carolina, Georgia and Virginia, feed the river withal its course. Countless fish, mussels, invertebrates and plants depend on the river for survival. To find out how you can get involved with conservation efforts, or to learn increasingly well-nigh this biodiversity hotspot, click here.   Employees and Retirees TVA Kids Doing Business With TVA TVA Privacy Policy Freedom of Information Act Legal Notices Information Quality No Fear Act Data Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Accessibility Information Inspector General TVA Police Energy Environment EconomicMinutiaeNewsroom CareersWell-nighInvestor Relations Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Flickr Tennessee Valley Authority 400 West Summit Hill Drive  Knoxville TN 37902 (865) 632-2101 tvainfo@tva.comWhento top