herrington lake question

[dkprofishn]

this mite be alittle crazy to ask but i was wondering whats the deepest herrington lake has ever been i wonder if its ever been over 250 ft deep ? its the deepest lake i have been on and my first time there i couldnt beleive my deptfinder just wonder what kind of creatures live on the bottom that deep

[MagikSmallie]

I don't think it's ever been more than 249'. Could be wrong but I doubt KU would let it get any deeper than that becuase of the lake level. I'm not certain but I beleive Herrington is the oldest lake in the state? built in 1925. I know when it was built it was the largest earthen dam in the world.

[Moon~Shaun]

At the time of its construction Dix Dam was the largest rock filled dam in the world, and was truly an engineering marvel of its day. The top of the dam is 287 feet above the riverbed (150 feet higher than Niagara Falls) and stretches 1,087 feet across the Dix River Gorge between Mercer and Garrard County. The dam in 24 feet wide on top and 750 feet wide at its base. Herrington Lake is the deepest lake in Kentucky. It is about 35 miles long, up to 1,200 ft. wide, and covers 2335 acres with 325 miles of shoreline. The deepest area is near the Dix Dam where water depth reaches 249 feet. The mean depth in the lake is 78 feet. Because the lake is so deep it has only frozen over twice - in 1936 and 1978. The estimated capacity of the lake is 175,000,000,000 gallons.

[Moon~Shaun]

I saw this article awhile back so they are not my words!

[floatman]

fished Herrington one spring and it had so much water we had to take the pole seat out to get under the Kennedy bridge,add that to 249ft, that would make 300 or so.

Gary