Modern Use
The Tennessee River is an important part of the Great Loop, the recreational circumnavigation of Eastern North America by water.
Two tributaries, the Emory River and Clinch River were the sites of the Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, which released 1.1 billion gallons of slurry into the surrounding waterways in 2008.
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