Maintaining Lake Cumberlan Water Levels

[Cherokee082465]

This is my first post so bare with me.A friend and I were discussing how they were going to hold the lake at 680 as their level for safety.My question is if 2inches of rain ,that is the amount I have heard,raised the lake 7ft. in about 3 days and their lowering it at a rate of about 6 inches per day it will take 20 days to get it back to 680.What are they going to do with the rains that could very well be coming at a rate 2 times per week or 3 days in a row and back to back weeks equaling 6 or 7 inches of rain for instance.To me that could raise the lake 20 feet and I am curious as to how they can deal with this issue if we have a rainy spring.I havent seen anyone really talk about this and I am curios about your thoughts.

the 20 days came from something I had read from beginning of rainfall until 680 level acheived on march 21.made myself look dumb LOL.

[rickhise]

I know some of you are smart enough to figure this out, how many more feet of rope will it take to tie a house boat off to the the summerpool tree line if, the average house boat use's 4 seperate lines to reach the tree line.

I cant imagine too many of the house boaters willing to leave the dock too often in the next 7 years to overnight on the lake, some of you with more experience w/houseboats will know, just curious

[phoenix]

About 1200ft. Thats how much a friend of mines father just bought !

[wtucker]

I have to echo Jim's comments on promoting tourism to the area. I am not an engineer, but I have to believe if dangers were as imminent as the media sometimes makes them out to be, there would be more "drastic" measures being taken. Even though we laugh about the invasion of the "Ohio Navy" and sometimes fuss about the inconveniences it places on our fishing, we have to remember they are spending Ohio money in KY. New money is good for all. This forum can be a useful tool for getting the word out.

[rickhise]

About 1200ft. Thats how much a friend of mines father just bought !

so 1200 feet @ $.75 a foot equals $900.00 a boat, times a 1000 boats equals :

90,000.00$ for tie up rope, lots of ramifications, I know this sounds so silly but its so over whelming, to understand all its ripples