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re: Hunting Oak Ridge Nat’l Lab in TN
Posted on 10/28/26 at 9:35 am to WarCamEagle88
Posted on 10/28/26 at 9:35 am to WarCamEagle88
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I get that they need to protect the equipment, and I understand security concerns in a post-9/11 world, but I also would think having a 100 or 200 yard buffer between where you can hunt and the dam would be sufficient.
I live near a 400 acre parcel of TVA land near a dam, the dam is a nearly a mile away from that parcel, and they still don’t allow archery hunting. I don’t see any reasonable security issue here.
We see dead deer in the roads around here fairly often, and we are near a 4 lane highway with heavy traffic. You would think the TVA would want to keep the herd in check under those circumstances to avoid car accidents involving deer. I would guess the deer cause problems by eating people’s landscaping in the area as well. Seems like the security of the dam could coexist with archery hunting and be a win-win for everyone involved.
Security concerns are merely an excuse to not have to police and provide oversite. There ain't a TVA or COE damn ANYWHERE without a couple of employees who are doing frick all during the work day who could simply ride around the area in a pick-up and be present. No one is going to plot to blow up a damn if there is the slightest chance that some old boy with a truck and a radio might happen along when they are setting the charges. There also isn't such a damn in any county who doesn't have some police doing frick all who could be riding around the area and being present. Given that residents are paying for BOTH and are having their vehicles destroyed, their lives endangered and their property eaten by the deer that are well within their rights to demand that the herds are thinned. The odds of being killed by hitting a deer with a vehicle is .016%, the odds of being killed in a terrorist attack is .000025%. Security is an excuse to avoid the small amount of work required to actually secure those areas.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 10:26 am to iwantacooler
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My dad worked at watts bar back in the late 80’s and we lived on the lake in the wolf creek area. Fantastic place to grow up.
I did a couple of stints at Watts Bar in the late 80s and it was fantastic! I loved the area. At the time one could but a GORGEOUS lake front lot for $10k or so. I mean a proper one. I looked at a townhouse condo at a marina / fish camp somewhere around Spring City while I was working up there and I think the price was around $30k. It hadn't really been "discovered" then. I haven't been up there in a while but I bet it has been discovered now.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 11:16 am to AwgustaDawg
I haven’t looked at house prices, but I did drive through earlier this summer when I was close by and it’s not as expensive looking or as developed as I imagined.
Dad worked for Bechtel so we hopped around every few years. Vicksburg, Topeka, turkey point, watts bar, Morgantown, etc…
Dad worked for Bechtel so we hopped around every few years. Vicksburg, Topeka, turkey point, watts bar, Morgantown, etc…
Posted on 10/28/26 at 12:19 pm to AwgustaDawg
The message about Watts Bar just reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in YEARS. My dad and I were working up there in the late 80s and when we got laid off we were driving back to Chattanooga and decided to take the scenic route. Came across a ferry across the river. Working ferry. Cost about $3. Hadn't thought about that in years.
Posted on 10/28/26 at 3:09 pm to WarCamEagle88
Do they lend you a dosimeter?
Posted on 10/28/26 at 6:38 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
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Do they lend you a dosimeter?
Just don’t pass locked gates
Posted on 10/29/26 at 7:25 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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Do they lend you a dosimeter?
The areas they would allow the public to access will be heavily monitored and will have less background radiation than most people's homes with smoke detectors will have. I wouldn't want to disturb much of the organic matter off the surface though and for sure I wouldn't want to start digging a hole LOL...ain't no telling what might be buried on those sites. When they were building the first bombs it was common practice to tell a couple of old boys hired from the neck down to "get that trash out of here" and they'd load it on a truck and haul it out of site and bury it with no one thinking about keeping track of those burial sites. Most of time it was just trash but there are ample cases of those sites being found which contained way more than trash. Might mess around with a shovel and start a critical reaction somewhere....but walking or driving on the surface is perfectly safe.
Posted on 10/29/26 at 8:53 am to hob
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Just don’t pass locked gates
And don't go past any yellow and magenta ropes. Yellow is fine, cross yellow ropes all you want. Magenta rope, if there is such a thing, is the same - cross all the magenta ropes you want. If you run across a yellow and magenta one though don't cross it. The magenta and the yellow combined causes a chemical reaction that attracts and filters the zoomies....one side of such a rope is death and damnation, the other side is healthy as healthy gets. One side is a slow agonizing demise the likes of which have seldom been experienced in the annals of human existence....the other side? Hell, hang out, sit down, eat a sandwich - its perfectly safe, Its the chemical reaction between the yellow and the magenta that keeps the zoomies at bay...by itself yellow or magenta is powerless, but combined its a powerful force beyond imagination. It also works with paint and signs....it is so reliant, in fact, one wonders what the fuss with lead and heavy water is. Probably a money grab by big nuclear. I am pretty certain you could swim in a reactor pool with a yellow and magenta speedo and never suffer any setback where you'd not fair as well with just a yellow or just a magenta speedo....
Posted on 11/7/26 at 7:12 am to WarCamEagle88
Let me know one of my damn non shooting buddies just dropped his first one wanted me to bring out my dog to find it. Nope not allowed. Good luck
Posted on 11/8/26 at 8:07 am to WarCamEagle88
I’m sure you will be occupied with the hunt, but if you’re into UTVs or 4x4s, Windrock is right there, and it’s an incredible off road park where you’ll also see some incredible off road rigs. We have done a lot of mountain bike races there (they have a downhill mtb park as well), and the area is insane.
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