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Barren River Lake is a 10,100 acres (41 km 2), reservoir in Kentucky created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1964 by impounding the Barren River. The lake occupies parts of Allen, Barren, and Monroe counties. The Barren River Lake Dam is an earthen dam, 146 feet (45 m) high and 3,970 feet (1,210 m) long at its crest. [2]
Barren River Lake State Resort Park is a 1,053-acre (426 ha) park located in Barren County, Kentucky and extending into parts of Allen County and Monroe County. [2] Barren River Lake , its major feature, is an artificial lake created with the building of a 146-foot-high (45 m) dam by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begun in 1960.
The river has reached similar levels and even higher in the past, according to the National Weather Service of Paducah. No danger after false spike throws prompts major flood stage reading at ...
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).
Jordan Yuodis, spokesperson for Anchorage Middletown Fire and EMS, said Sgt. Christian Smith died in an "accidental drowning" while boating with friends at Barren River Lake in southern Kentucky ...
It is a tributary of the Barren River. Drakes Creek, as measured at Alvaton , has a mean annual discharge of 768 cubic feet per second. [ 2 ] Drakes Creek was named for a white pioneer named Drake who narrowly escaped with his life an attack by Indians. [ 3 ]
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km 2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5,439 cubic miles (22,671 km 3), slightly less than the volume of Lake Baikal (5,666 cu mi or 23,615 km 3, 22–23% of the world's surface fresh water).