• Boone Lake was built by TVA in 1952.

• It has an area of 4510 acres and a maximum depth of 129 feet at normal maximum pool.

• It has an extensively  developed shoreline of about 130 miles.

• It  has the highest phosphorus loading of any TVA tributary lake and the highest average chlorophyll.

• The Boone Watershed  below South Holston and Watuaga Dams is about 670 square miles.

• The local watershed (below South Holston and Watuaga Dams, excluding the Doe)  lies in two states and four counties.

• It includes the cities of Bristol TN and VA, Blountville, Bluff City,  Johnson City, and Elizabethton.

• Although no firm data are available,  Boone probably has the most densely populated and heavily developed  watershed of any TVA reservoir.

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