Here’s a question that I’m having a hard time getting an answer to. What is the single deepest spot on the Ohio River? When I Google it, I get answers of 55 feet, 85 feet, and 130 feet…though they all place it in the Louisville area.

What I am wondering is, if I were in a boat over the deepest single spot while the water was at typical summertime pool –no flooding, no droughts – how many feet down would I find the mud, gravel, or rocks? I figure if anyone has some good answers (or could make up good BS… ) it would be the people here

On a related note, can anyone say what the terrain of the river bottom would look like if the water suddenly disappeared? Would it be long stretches of bare mud and silt, with the occasional rocky spot? Would it be an undulating junkyard of rocks, wrecked cars, trees, and garbage.

Whenever I look at the river, I try to picture what it would look like underneath, but I just don’t know.