Big Bend Dam with an annual production of 969 million kilowatt hours, and meets peak-hour demand for power within the Missouri River Basin. Located near Fort Thompson, South Dakota, just south of a major bend in the Missouri River (from which the dam takes its name), Big Bend Dam creates Lake Sharpe, named after South Dakota Governor Merrill Q. Sharpe. The lake extends for up the course of the Missouri River passing through Pierre, the State Capitol, to Oahe Dam, another major power-generating and flood control dam. Lake Sharpe covers a total of and drains an area just under . South Dakota Highway
Norris Dam State Park the Tennessee Valley Authority in the early 1930s. The Clinch River flows southwestward for from its source in southwestern Virginia to its mouth along the Tennessee River near Kingston. Norris Dam is located just over upstream from the mouth of the Clinch, near the Anderson-Campbell county line. Cove Creek, which flows down from its source in the Cumberland Mountains roughly to the northwest, empties into the Clinch approximately north of Norris Dam. The Powell River, which also rises in southwestern Virginia, empties into the Clinch approximately upstream from Norris Dam. Norris Lake spans a stretch of the Clinch from the