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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]
The earthen dam (National ID # KY03007, at ), owned and operated by the Corps of Engineers, stands 144 feet (44 m) high, with a length of 2,350 feet (720 m) at itsIts riverine reservoir has a normal surface area of 12.8 square miles (33 km 2), a maximum capacity of 723 200 acre-feet (892 100 000 m 3), and normal storage of 244 100 acre-feet (301 100 000 m 3).
Laurel River Lake, Kentucky. Laurel River Lake, located west of Corbin, Kentucky, in the U.S., is a reservoir built in 1977 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Laurel River, a tributary of the Cumberland River, in the Daniel Boone National Forest. The lake covers parts of Laurel and Whitley counties. [2]
Carr Creek Lake (formerly Carr Fork Lake), located east of Hazard, Kentucky, along Kentucky Route 15 in Knott County, is a 710 acres (3 km 2) reservoir created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1976. [2]
Lake Barkley, a 58,000-acre (230 km 2) reservoir in Livingston County, Lyon County and Trigg County in Kentucky and extending into Stewart County and Houston County in Tennessee, was impounded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1966 upon the completion of Barkley Dam.
Grayson Lake is a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) reservoir in Carter and Elliott counties in Kentucky.It was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1968 by impounding the Little Sandy River [3] with the Grayson Dam, an earthen structure 120 feet (37 m) high, creating a maximum capacity of 118,990 acre-feet (146,770,000 m 3).
Taylorsville Lake is a 3,050-acre (1,230 ha) artificial lake or reservoir located mainly in Spencer County, Kentucky. [1] Construction by the United States Army Corps of Engineers started in 1974, and flooding began in 1983. The total cost of the lake was $103 million. It is about 18.5 miles (29.8 km) long.
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 ...