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Show they have developed similar types of occupancy, and similar regional problems. Types of agriculture, land use, and soil conservation problems have close similarity in many parts of both basins. Mineral industry and forest use are roughly similar. An important part of the Cumberland is in Tennessee, the principal State of the Tennessee Basin. All of the remainder of the Cumberland is in Kentucky, which also is a Tennessee Basin State. From a developmental point of view, therefore, some points of advantage can be cited for close coordination of the two basins. An organization accustomed to problems of the Tennessee could be expected to find similar activities and solutions in the Cumberland Basin. Existing regional electric power distribution sys- tem.-The transmission system of the TVA reaches every section of the Cumberland Basin, and the major urban centers of the Cumberland pur- chase their supplies of energy from the TVA for distribution to homes and commercial and indus- trial establishments. In the purchase of the Tennessee Electric Power Co. facilities on August 15, 1939, the TVA suc- ceeded to an integrated system which operated throughout the entire middle portions of Tennessee and served the major metropolitan and rural areas of both the Tennessee Basin and the Cumberland Basin in that division of the State. As a result of this the present electric service of the valley system extends into and covers 80 percent of the Cumber- land Basin. In the Cumberland Basin, TVA presently is serving through municipally owned distribution systems the following Tennessee and Kentucky cities: July 1950 Number of Consumers1 Nashville_________________________90, 646 Clarksville________________________ 5, 234 Hopkinsville, Ky___________________ 5, 301 Murfreesboro______________________ 5, 111 Springfield________________________ 2, 222 Lebanon__________________________ 2, 932 Gallatin__________________________ 2, 388 McMinnville______________________ 6, 495 Gookeville________________________ 2, 073 Franklin, Ky______________________ 1,614 Dickson__________________________ 5, 890 Jellico____________________________ 3, 019 1 Includes consumers outside incorporated limits. Electric membership corporations and rural elec- tric cooperatives organized under Tennessee and Kentucky laws also purchase electricity from TVA. The following in the Cumberland Basin are served: Number of members July 1950 Volunteer Electric Membership Corp__15, 901 Cumberland Electric Membership Corp__________________________15,793 Tri-County Electric Membership Corp__________________________15,588 Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Corp__________________________15,097 Upper Cumberland Electric Member- ship Corp_______________________12, 645 Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative__9, 766 Caney Fork Electric Membership Corp_ 5,833 Plateau Electric Membership Corp____ 2, 792 The transmission lines of the TVA connect these Cumberland Valley cities and rural cooperative areas. At the end of 1949, approximately 232,750 power consumers out of a total of 1,049,050 lived in the Cumberland Valley; during 1949 cities and coop- eratives serving the Cumberland Valley accounted for power sales of 1,290,100,000 kilowatt-hours out of total TVA sales of 6,743,000,000. Thus the Cumberland Valley represents about 20 percent of TVA's power market. Because the major power supply is through one integrated system the Federal Power Commission has combined the major areas contained in the basin of the Tennessee and the basin of the Cum- berland in one power supply area, region 20. All of the Tennessee Basin, and by far the greatest and most populous part of the Cumberland Basin, lie within it. Existing development of the Cumberland Basin.-The hydroelectric development of the Cumberland Valley is not yet as advanced as that of the Tennessee. The Federal Power Commission and the Corps of Engineers have made studies of possible power development. The group of proj- ects studied will provide installed capacity of about 800,000 kilowatts. In an average water year these projects may be expected to generate approximately 2.7 billion kilowatt-hours of energy. Among these projects a dam on the Cumberland near Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee and near the mouths of these two rivers affords definite possibili- ties of advantage in terms of the coordinated hy- draulic development of the two rivers. By inter- connecting the two reservoirs by a canal it would be possible to use water from both rivers to greater ad- vantage through the two powerhouses than would be possible if the rivers were treated as separate and distinct. All of the major power developments of the Cumberland, with the exception of Wolf 749 |
