Former rapids, Tennessee River, northwestern Alabama, U.S. At about 37 mi (60 km) long, it was a navigation hazard but is now submerged under at least 9 ft (3 m) of water by the Wilson, Wheeler, and Pickwick Landing dams, which completely eliminated the rapids. Manufacturing plants and hydroelectric power facilities are administered by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The city of Muscle Shoals (pop., 2000: 11,924) developed from the TVA complex in the Wilson Dam area
a bank or reef, an area of shallow water dangerous to navigation Sounding: the of operation of determioning the depth of the sea, and the quality of the ground, by means of a lead and line, sunk from the ship to the bottom, where some of the sediment or sand adheres to the tallow in the hollow base of the lead
(1) (noun) A detached area of any material except rock or coral The DEPTHS over it are a danger to surface navigation Similar continental or insular shelf features of greater DEPTHS are usually termed BANKS (2) (verb) To become shallow gradually (3) To cause to become shallow (4) To proceed from a greater to a lesser DEPTH of water
A sandbank or sandbar that makes the water shallow; specifically : an elevation which is not rocky and on which there is a depth of water of six fathoms (11 meters) or less