I didn't even know about this crisis as I have been studiously ignoring the "news" lately. This is a pretty serious matter. Very strange how that area of US is getting pounded in the past few years.

A few links for background and details. TVA (justifiably) gets all the infrastructure geek attention but this is baby is quite impressive in its own right: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?en...

(I found the nature of the '73 flood's damage to the system in above to be very interesting.)

This promises to be a good read -- haven't read it yet myself: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1987/02/23/1987_02_23_039_T...