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All reservoirs in Kentucky should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Kentucky; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Kentucky; See also category Lakes of Kentucky
Ludowici Well, Ludowici, Georgia; Maka Yusota, Savage, Minnesota; McConnell Springs Park, Lexington, Kentucky; Olympia Brewery, Olympia, Washington (see Olympia Brewing Company#Use of artesian water) Polk Theater well, Lakeland, Florida; possibly used in the loop of the first air conditioning system in America; Pryor Avenue Iron Well, Milwaukee ...
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 ).
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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Kentucky led the US in coal production. A well drilled in 1819 in salt water, in the South Fork of the Cumberland River revealed the first indications of petroleum in Kentucky. A rush to produce paraffin from oil in the 1850s prompted discoveries in Clinton, Cumberland, Allen, Barren, Meade, Wayne and Russell ...
A majority of the county, with some exceptions in and around Whitesburg, is without water, she said Wednesday. City of Hazard Utilities was also still struggling to bring homes and businesses back ...
Sulphur Well is named for a vein of mineral water a local landowner discovered while drilling for salt before the American Civil War. The landowner then began operating a hotel near the mineral well, and a village grew up in the area. By 1878, the community had a school, and a post office was established on July 30, 1879.
Cave Run Lake, located south of Morehead, Kentucky, USA along Kentucky Route 801, is an 8,270-acre (33 km 2) reservoir built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.The 148 feet (45 m), half-mile (800 m) dam (and outlet works) construction began in 1965 and was completed in 1973.