Wolf Creek Dam

[plowboy]

Your right, Cumberland is no where near the second largest in the world or even the USA. It is just the largest (by volume) East of the Mississippi in the USA according to the Corps. Not sure how that rumor got started.

[Viking]

I think they're talking about volumn.

[buzzking]

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

[Danny]

n/t

[Barry]

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