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Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway

• Location & Contact Information
  • Address: Northeast, Mississippi and West Central, Alabama AL USA
  • Telephone Number: +1-662-327-2142
  • Official Website: [1]
• Overview

Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (popularly known as the Tenn-Tom) is a 234-mile (377km) artificial waterway that provides a connecting link between the Tennessee and Tombigbee rivers. The waterway begins at Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, then flows southward through northeast Mississippi and west Alabama, finally connecting with the established Warrior -Tombigbee navigation system at Demopolis, Alabama.After 12 years of construction, the waterway and its seventeen public ports and terminals opened to commercial traffic in January 1985. In addition to the original 110,000 acres (445km) of land acquired for the construction and operation of the project, another 88,000 acres (356km) have been purchased and managed by the two state conservation agencies for wildlife habitat preservation and mixed use including hunting and parks.The elevation change between the two ends of the waterway is 341 feet (104m), for a drop of |1.46|ft/mi.