Wolf Creek Dam

What is the latest news on the repairs at Wolf Creek Dam and are they going to shut down the ramp at the dam this spring.? Thanks, Mike

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-09-06 AT 11:24AM (EST)[/font][p]The following is an exerpt from an article in the Herald-Leader from a couple of days ago...

The massive 5,736-foot-wide Wolf Creek Dam near Jamestown, Ky., holds Lake Cumberland, the ninth-largest reservoir in the United States and the largest east of the Mississippi River.

For the third time since the 1960s, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working on a project to stop seepage at the foot of the dam caused by sinkholes in the porous land. From 1975 to 1979, the Corps built a concrete wall to block the water, but seepage problems continue.

Now the Corps plans to build another wall at the dam's base, costing $307 million. Construction is scheduled from 2007 to 2012.

The Corps is holding public hearings in the next month to discuss both the project's impact on tourism -- building the wall will require some lake drawdowns -- and discussing preparedness plans in the rare event the dam collapsed and sent a torrent of water down the Cumberland River toward cities downstream, including Celina, Carthage, Hartsville, Hendersonville, Nashville and beyond.


...nothing on ramp closing, so I guess they're still in the talking stages about fixing the problem.

KY Lake is over 120,000 acres. For Lake Cuberland to be the largest resivoir east of the Mississippi, it must be a lot bigger than I thought. Can anyone answer the acerage question for me so I don't have to research it?

Thanks,

Danny

Lake Cumberland general statistics

The normal summer pool is around 723 feet above mean sea level.
The tree line is about 725 feet.
The maximum pool is 760 feet (top of dam floodgates)
The top of Wolf Creek Dam is 773 feet.
Lake is considered at "flood control" level from 723-760 feet.
Normal power drawdown is between 723 and 673 feet.
The power generating capacity is considered "dead" below 673 feet.

At 760 feet elevation, the shoreline of Lake Cumberland is 1,255 miles.
At maximum possible elevation of 760 feet, Lake Cumberland is considered to be 101 miles long, with a total surface acreage of 65,530 acres.
Surface acreage at 723 feet is 50,250 acres.
At minimum power pool of 673 feet, it is 35,820 surface acres.

Average depth of lake at summer pool of 723 feet above sea level: 90 feet
Deepest point in lake: original river channel adjacent to Wolf Creek Dam: 200 feet
Depth of river channel upstream of dam to Wolf Creek: generally 160 feet
Depth of river channel upstream of Wolf Creek to one mile upstream of Burnside: generally 120 feet

Winter pool 35,000
Summer pool 50,000
Flood stage 63,000

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I think they're talking about volumn.

>KY Lake is over 120,000 acres.
>For Lake Cuberland to be
>the largest resivoir east of
>the Mississippi, it must be
>a lot bigger than I
>thought. Can anyone answer the
>acerage question for me so
>I don't have to research
>it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Danny

Danny that's in reference to volume of water. Couple of interesting facts are that, it at summer pool has 1,250 square miles of shoreline, in a straight line that's more than the eastern seaboard of the United States. Also at summer pool the Army corp computers say that if you emptied the lake it would cover the entire state of Kentucky with 3 inches of water.

>What is the latest news on
>the repairs at Wolf Creek
>Dam and are they going
>to shut down the ramp
>at the dam this spring.?
>Thanks, Mike

They are going to relocate the ramp and parking in the same general area.
The present ramp and lot will be raised approx. 30ft. with the fill from the new ramp and lot and be used as the base of operations for the Contractor.

Check out this thread, which gives a diagram of changes to Halcomb's Landing ramp:[url]http://www.lakecumberland.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=8282[/url]

They must have been meaning water volume, or else maybe it was written prior to the creation of KY Lake. Isn't Cumberland much older?

Here is some facts about KY Lake:

"Recreation
Kentucky Lake is a magnet for vacationers and fishermen from a wide area of mid- America, with recreation use amounting to some 17 million visits each year. Along its nearly 2400 miles of cove-studded shoreline are many boat docks and resorts..."

and

"Kentucky Dam creates the largest manmade lake in the eastern United States. It backs up the Tennessee River for 184 miles and creates a lake that stretches south across the western tip of Kentucky and nearly the entire width of Tennessee. At maximum normal operating level, Kentucky Lake covers 160,300 acres."

Here's the link:

[url]http://www.kentuckylake.com/kylake/kylake.htm[/url]

Obviously, I understated the size of the lake.

Danny

I heard somewhere a long time ago that Cumberland is the secong largest man-made like in the world .wow........