This is the second of three volumes comprising the Design of TVA Projects and is one of a planned series of special reports recording the experience of TVA in carrying out the major phases of its engineering and construction program. It undertakes to explain the engineering work involved in the design of electrical installations for primary water control stations of TVA, including switch-yards constructed at the generating stations but not transmission lines and substations.

This report is published for the purpose of giving to the engineering profession and others interested in river-control projects the important and useful facts about the planning and construction of the Pickwick Landing Dam and Reservoir, located on the Tennessee River in western Tennessee near the Mississippi-Alabama line and constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, an agency of the United States Government.