Wolf Creek Dam

[mkspw]

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

[Ruffneck]

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

[PRO V LE]

>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.

[kreyfish]

[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.

[Danny]

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

[mhall]

>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.

[Danny]

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:

http://www.kentuckylake.com/kylake/kylake.htm

Obviously, I understated the size of the lake.

Danny

[spinnerbaitguy]

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

[plowboy]

Lake volume is measured in acre feet of water. There is more water in Lake Cumberland than Kentucky Lake even though Kentucky Lake has more surface. Cumberland averages over 160 ft deep in the river channel at summer pool and even deeper sometimes. Kentucky Lake is long and broad but fairly shallow. Cumberland at its largest is about 63,000 acres surface area but most of that is over 100 ft deep so we are talking alot of water. I have fished both lakes and I can tell you even though Ky Lake Covers alot of surface it is fairly shallow compared to the lakes in Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee. Barkley is even shallower. Reelfoot lake looks big on the map but it only averages 3 ft deep so not alot of water (you hit a stump every 50 ft.). I grew up on Cumberland and when I went to Kentucky and Barkley for the first time I could not believe how shallow it was compared to Cumberland. To be in the middle of a bay and only be in 20 ft of water sometimes was hard to believe. It is nothing out of the ordinary to be a cast from shore and be in over 100 ft of water in Cumberland (even back in the creeks). Hope this helps.

[Basscat]

I think Ky Lake is a considered a river and not a reservior.

[mhall]

Ployboy is dead on the money with his post.

[bhsanders]

i dont think cumberland is the 2nd largest man made lake in the world...
aswan in egypt is currently the largest, and lake mead is much larger than cumberland, that off the top of the head, cant think of anymore right now, but at best its 3rd. anyone heard about the dam under construction in china on the huang ho??? saw a show last week on the sci channel, this new lake slated to be complete in 2010 will dwarf all others with a surface area around
20000 sq miles thats almost 30 times the size of okeechobee.