Corps suspends work on part of Wolf Creek Dam project

Hope there's not a problem...

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Here is the link:

[url]http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/pao/News/10-08_Wolf_Creek_suspension.htm[/url]

Billy

That didnt read like it sounded good...

Work on the dam makes me wonder...if they had to do it all over again, would they even build the dam?

[QUOTE=creeker;405066]Work on the dam makes me wonder...if they had to do it all over again, would they even build the dam?[/QUOTE]

Just like I said in an earlier post, the dam with never be "completly fixed"...it might just end up being a... "work in progress" for a long long time. Will we ever see the water back like it use to be? Im a huge huge optimist, ...yet a realist (and you can be both). I'd sure like to eat my words (hope I do);...but if I have to, I'll be long gone...it won't happen in my life time. Even National Geographic Inc. when they did their special on the sight...they took a look at it. And from what I remember on the TV program report, they even said that the "possibility that Lake Cumberland being completly back to it's "normal water level", is very doubtful,...The ground that the dam is built on and around ...is just to unstable". Water is one of the most powerful forces in the world...
Do we need to come down to reality ...that mother nature can't be turned back...there are just some things in life we can't totally fix. Lets just keep wondering ...if what "we have now" ...as we know it...we be there 30 years from now. I've come to terms with it...so Im not hoping anymore....Im in the wondering stage of it all.

Look at the bright side. If they ever do raise it back to normal the fishing will be better the longer they wait. If they wait another 5-10 years to get it to normal when they raise it Cumberland will be one of the hottest lakes in the south with all that brush and trees.

On a side note all the effort put into creating brushpiles for when the water raises may have been a wasted effort if it isnt raised. Heck they may be rotted by then if it does raise.

Realistically, it will be completed in 10 years.

i heard on the radio today they stopped work because some sensors that had been placed showed movement or vibration.

You know what amazes me , you guys act like the lake has been drained... It is still the biggest lake around ! So what if it stays at 680, there is still water over 100 feet deep in several spots. WAY deeper than barren ,green, dale hollow . AS for the problem THIS Came FROM ONE OF THE CORPS ENGINEERS working on the **** . There is a crack in the road at the edge of the concrete and the earthen part that was 1/2 inch wide in december. Now it is 1 inch wide so the are going to do some more sizemograph readings to see if they have disturbed something while they are building the wall. He said it was nothing to be alarmed about

[QUOTE=Jbyrd;405140]You know what amazes me , you guys act like the lake has been drained... It is still the biggest lake around ! So what if it stays at 680, there is still water over 100 feet deep in several spots. WAY deeper than barren ,green, dale hollow . AS for the problem THIS Came FROM ONE OF THE CORPS ENGINEERS working on the **** . There is a crack in the road at the edge of the concrete and the earthen part that was 1/2 inch wide in december. Now it is 1 inch wide so the are going to do some more sizemograph readings to see if they have disturbed something while they are building the wall. He said it was nothing to be alarmed about[/QUOTE]:eek: A crack is a crack, after all the money that has been spent and it still opens up 1/2 inch in three months. Yep that's is something to raise a flag at, alot of water is being held back by that make shift dam.:rolleyes:

Pretty interesting stuff going on out there. They technically havent even begun the actual repair work yet. To put it in laymens terms they are doing testing on the earthen end away from the problem area which is were the earthen part meets the concrete. They are drilling holes 300 feet below the dam, filling the holes and voids they encounter with concrete to determine if this will help stabilize the structure. Being that Ky is full of caves and karst terrain, they werent able to compact or fill all the caves and voids under the earthen part of the dam during original construction and those areas have allowed water to leak through. Thats a very elementary explanation or how it was explained to our agency that has some regulatory issues with the waste from the work being done. Im no expert but If its taken this long just to try testing I imagine the actual repairs might take years.

had an uncle who is long past that worked on the ****. He said when they found those caves they filled them with bales of hay and put conrete cap on them. Cant imagine why they are having problems now.