Maintaining the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers
Nashville District's Navigation Branch is responsible for
maintaining 14 navigation locks and over 1100 miles of
navigable river channels on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, which
represents ten percent of the U.S. Inland Waterway System. These rivers are also
known as the "Twin Rivers" because of the way their paths closely mirror each
other.
President Andrew Jackson gave the Army Engineers their first
mission to develop the Twin River Valleys in the early
1830s. As the needs of the nation and the mid-south have changed, the Twin
Rivers have changed to meet them. Commerce on the Twin Rivers has evolved
from canoes and flatboats loaded with a season's harvest to today's daily
passage of 12 barge tows hauling over 17,000 tons of goods at a time.
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