Technical Report No. 6, the Chickamauga Project, is published by the Tennessee Valley Authority to give to those interested in the development facts concerning the planning, design, construction, and initial operation of the project. The report has been written from the basic planning, design, and construction reports, correspondence, and other data contained in the Authority's files. Content has been reduced to a minimum, commensurate with the many phases of the work. Unusual and unprecedented features and methods have been described in some detail while common procedures have been described rather briefly.

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 Wheeler Dam and Reservoir in northern Alabama, and constructed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, an agency of the United States Government.