The Elk River Dam, completed in 1952, impounds the Elk River in the US state of

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to ...

to form the

Woods Reservoir Woods Reservoir is a 3,600 acre reservoir created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for use as a cooling system for the United States Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center. The US Air Force and Arnold Engineering Development ...

. The US Air Force and Arnold Engineering Development Center own and operate Woods Reservoir. The dam itself is just under 3,000 feet long and holds back 26 billion gallons of water on a reservoir. The water is used to help the

Arnold Air Force Base Arnold Air Force Base (Arnold AFB) is a United States Air Force base located in Coffee and Franklin counties, Tennessee, adjacent to the city of Tullahoma. It is named for General Henry "Hap" Arnold, the father of the U.S. Air Force. There ...

with cooling of their wind-tunnel equipment. Water exiting from the dam flows along the Elk River into Tims Ford Lake.

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{{coord, 35.2988, -86.0976, type:landmark_region:US-TN, display=title 1952 establishments Dams in Tennessee