Blue Ridge Reservoir Land Management Plan

Reservoir Land Management Plans (RLMPs) effectively guide land use approvals, private water use facility permitting and resource management decisions on TVA-managed public land.

Blue Ridge Reservoir is one of nine tributary reservoirs included in the Mountain RLMPs project, which was approved by the TVA Board of Directors in November 2009.

Blue Ridge Reservoir is an impoundment of the Toccoa River formed by Blue Ridge Dam located at Toccoa River mile 53.0. Blue Ridge Reservoir is situated in Fannin County in north Georgia. The Toccoa River becomes the Ocoee River when it enters Tennessee, and Blue Ridge Reservoir is the uppermost TVA project on this TVA reservoir system.

Blue Ridge has a scenic overlook above the dam and a shaded picnic area near the powerhouse. There is a canoe and kayak launch site below the dam that provides non-motorized boaters access to the Toccoa River. In addition to providing power to the area and recreational opportunities in the form of watersports, Blue Ridge Dam also serves to reduce flooding.

Scope

The scope of the Blue Ridge RLMP is 469.5 acres of the 6,273.0 total acres of TVA public land in the Mountain RLMP. Blue Ridge Reservoir property is divided into 42 parcels, and each parcel is assigned a single land use allocation zone. Descriptions of the allowable land uses within each land planning zone are available here.

Mountain Reservoirs Land Management Plan

Maps

Use the GIS Viewer Map to find individual parcels and land use allocations for TVA reservoir property.  Click on individual parcels to find out more information about a piece of TVA property.  Please note that parcel descriptions are included in the interactive map viewer for convenience, but may have been altered from the original description due to character length restrictions.  Please reference the appropriate Reservoir Land Management Plan for the complete parcel descriptions.  Also, please note that parcel descriptions are representative of the time in which the plans were written; some information may be out of date such as available facilities or names of commercial operations.

Reservoir Land Management Plan Viewer

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How to Use the Viewer Map (PDF)

Allocation Changes

After approval of an RLMP by TVA, all future uses of TVA public
lands on that reservoir must then be consistent with the allocations
within the RLMP. In accordance with TVA policies and guidelines, allocation
changes are only allowable under limited circumstances. The attachment
at the link below describes the land use allocation changes that have
occurred on Blue Ridge Reservoir since the 2009 RLMP was completed.

Allocation Changes (PDF)

Land Allocation Acreage

TVA land around Blue Ridge Reservoir has been allocated for certain land
uses as summarized in the table below.

^*Zone 1 is Non-TVA Shoreland with TVA land rights and does not change as a result of the lands planning process.

Environmental Review

TVA’s land planning methodology incorporates the environmental review process established under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA requires federal agencies to consider the effects of their proposed projects on the human and natural environment before final decisions are made.

Mountain Reservoirs Environmental Review

It is important to note that RLMPs are programmatic plans that designate potential allowable land uses as defined in the land use zone definitions and do not involve specific land actions. TVA would complete an appropriate site-specific environmental review prior to proposed development or activity on TVA public land.