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Jan. 25—Wolf Creek Dam is in line for some major upgrades as part of the Fiscal Year 2022 Work Plan that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced last week. The Corps's Nashville ...
The Wolf Creek Dam is a multi-purpose dam on the Cumberland River in the western part of Russell County, Kentucky, United States.The dam serves at once four distinct purposes: it generates hydroelectricity; it regulates and limits flooding; it releases stored water to permit year-round navigation on the Cumberland River; and it creates Lake Cumberland for recreation, the largest man-made lake ...
The maximum pool is 760 feet (232 m) at the top of dam floodgates; The top of Wolf Creek Dam is 773 feet (236 m). Lake is considered at "flood control" level from 723 to 760 feet (220 to 232 m). Normal power drawdown is between 723 and 673 feet (220 to 205 m). At 760 feet (232 m) elevation, the shoreline of Lake Cumberland is 1,255 miles (2,020 ...
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Kentucky.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Wolf Creek Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located near Burlington, Kansas. It occupies 9,818 acres (39.73 km 2 ) of the total 11,800 acres (4,800 ha) controlled by the owner. Its namesake, Wolf Creek, was dammed to create Coffey County Lake (formerly Wolf Creek Lake), and provides water for the condensers.
The largest dam removal project in U.S. history has freed the Klamath River, ... on a tributary creek downstream from the dams, a group of men wearing wetsuits, masks and snorkels swam in clear ...
A dam in an eastern Wisconsin community has been breached, prompting people living downriver to be evacuated, the National Weather Service said Friday. The dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf ...
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