Corps closing

[R19]

You can actually launch at Holmes Bend ramp at a water level of 680 (I think the turnaround should be dry), but yeah ... all this rain on top of a flooded lake is not a good sign for the near future.

If it ever comes to a point where you don't have a place to turn a boat around at Holmes Bend due to high water you had better head to Williamstown and get loaded onto the replica they have of Noah's arch. If water is over the second parking lot like it is right now you can turn around in the third parking lot. In the rare event it gets into the third parking lot you can turn around at the restroom. If it reaches the restroom you can turn around at the new lodge they built but I will say if it ever reaches that level we have problems bigger than high water. I guess my point is there is a ton of places to turn around at Holmes Bend.

You can unload from the road at any water level but there is a point where the slope in the road is not that great. This will require you to have two people to unload because you have to back the vehicle down into the water far enough to get the front tires wet. If you do this and your buy yourself you get your feet wet.

Summer pool is 675. Around 680 or so it's in the small flat area at the top of the ramp. Once it gets around 682-3 its gets up onto the road where the slope gets better. What I am trying to say is it's actually easier to launch at 10 ft or more over summer pool than 5 ft over due to the slope in the road. Due to slope in the road having different angles there is levels where you need to have two people or your getting your feet wet if your by yourself but I have never seen where two people could not unload at Holmes Bend. One person yes it's difficult, two people can always unload at any water level.


On a side note as I type this the lake is right at 694. If my memory is correct (and I am going off memory I have not visually confirmed this) around 693-695 is the level where Lone Valley becomes unusable because its up onto the flat area. Same thing with Butler creek/Mt. Carmel. At the 693-695 level it gets over the parking lot and into the flat area. Again I have no visual on this. I am going off memory of past history because those are the ramps I use at high water because you can unload buy yourself without getting your feet wet and I fish solo 95% of the time. Now regarding Lone Valley at high water it is another one of those ramps that once it gets a little high it gets difficult but once it gets higher it gets easier to unload but it will reach a point where it gets too high and as I said I "think" it's getting close to that point right now.

Sometime today I plan on getting out. I live in the Holmes Bend community. I will swing by Holmes Bend and Mt. Carmel/Butler creek and see what they look like.

[adriancretired]

the Huntington district for eastern Kentucky has the boat ramps open, and no corps fees for launching ,per the corps web site

[R19]

Green River Lake ramps...I drove to Campbellsville today so I went buy three different ramps and looked at the water level. What I posted earlier is correct. Around 695 Lone Valley and Butler Creek/Mt. Carmel become unusable due to high water. The level I saw today (Friday 3/19) around noon was 694. Both ramps still look usable BUT there was not much slope left. With the water rising like it has in the last 24 hours I don't see either one of those ramp being usable due to high water this weekend.

Thursday at noon you could turn around at Lone Valley in the parking lot near the restrooms. I do know that back in January or February when water got higher than what it is right now they put up a barricade so you could not turn right off the main road. There was no barricade in place Thursday but as a pure guess I could see them putting one up soon due to high water. Actually I am surprised they don't have one up anyway because per: COE press release boat ramps are open but any campground, restroom, picnic shelter, play ground, beach or public day use area is closed. All of those are just a few yards away from the ramp that is open. If they do close the ramp it is due to high water because the press release says boat ramps will remain open.

I also drove by Holmes Bend and as I said earlier it's usable but you had better have two people because if your solo your getting your feet wet. Water at all three locations look like a chocolate milkshake. I was at Lake Cumberland Monday 3/9 and it was in decent shape color wise on the lower end. As far as the Cumberland water level it's right at summer pool so it looks like Cumberland for me this weekend...and probably the next several days.

[Les Young]

I talked to them yesterday & they said all of their ramps would remain open with no launch fees until May i think it was.