Quote Originally Posted by bandchaser View Post
I understand that the twin lakes are for flood control, and they don't give a rip about the fishery.
But, there was not a catastrophic flood occurring. One day the current thru KY dam reached over 130,000 cfs. And the current rule curve for KY Lake is the 356' window. I believe that 354.9' is not in that window, and their current rule curve is showing it to be 1' below the rule curve.
I question their thought processes because somebody got button pushin' happy, and dumped too much water to quickly. Huge swings play a tole on all kinds of industry, river industry, commercial fishing, guides and recreational fishing and boating.
Whoever did it needs a swift kick in the arse!!!!

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On the contrary, there was catastrophic flooding in the Cumberland River. Cheatham lower rose about 20 feet in about 13 hours. Ky had to discharge to supplement Barkley and avoid flooding on the Lower Cumberland. it was bad! I just went through it on a Towboat.

There's also a high potential for major rainfall in the TN and Cum systems in the coming week. They're just reserving capacity for that rainfall.