Thread: Pullin the plug!

We may break the record this year!
-One for the History Books - May 5th, 2010, Kentucky Lake is officially CLOSED to recreational traffic for the first time in history by U.S. Coast Guard due to extreme flooding and rainfall in the lakes area (Lake Barkley and Land Between the Lakes closed as well). The water levels rose 4ft in only 24hrs. Kentucky Lake peaked at 369.03' on Friday, May 7th at 2:00 p.m. The flooding missed the high-water mark set in May 1984 of 369.99'. The lakes held steady at 369'. It took just a week for the lakes to drop nine feet back down to near normal levels.

Plug is going in Friday, cfs dropping to 12,000 and lake level rising to 363.4...

wow, Ill bet when they put the plug in it will raise really fast!!! any ideas on how fast?
I have my boat in my dock, I guess I better get down and pull it out ,,

Here is the site I use for info.

TVA: Kentucky

explore ky lake site says corp and nws predicting it to reach 371'

Just looked at the water data and seen where Kentucky lake just raised 1 foot in 7 hours this evening. Hard to imagine how much water is flowing in, knowing how big that lake really is. As bad as the crappie fishing has been, I'm glad I got some fishing in when I did.

Copied from an update that Jigman eluded to:
A press release sent out Wednesday afternoon from the Land Between The Lakes states, "Tennessee Valley Authority and the Corps of Engineers are predicting the lake level for Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake to rise to 371 feet (12 feet over summer pool)." At 371', a new record would be set by one foot, according to TVA.

Discharge at Kentucky & Barkley Dams is virtually non-existent for Friday and Saturday. The gates at the dams will be shut off to help flood control on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

A slew of fishing reports should come out today that will offer insight on the fishing conditions. Check out the Fishing section of this website to read the latest reports.

I was up there yesterday afternoon for about 2 hours. It looked to have jumped at least 10" in the 2 hours that we were there. The main lake looks like chocolate milk but there wasn't a whole lot of debris floating down yet. The debris will probably really get bad when they open the gates again.