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The Nolin River is a 104-mile-long (167 km) [1] tributary of the Green River in central Kentucky in the United States. [2] Via the Green and Ohio rivers, it is a part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. According to legend, Nolin River was so named when a group of hunters camped on a knoll near the river and a member of the hunting party ...
Nolin River Lake is a reservoir in Edmonson, Grayson, and Hart counties in Kentucky. It was impounded from the Nolin River by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1963. [ 2 ] The Nolin River dam was authorized in 1938 as part of a flood control act.
The Green River is a 384-mile-long (618 km) [3] tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south central Kentucky. Tributaries of the Green River include the Barren River, the Nolin River, the Pond River and the Rough River. The river was named after Nathanael Greene, a general of the American Revolutionary War. [4]
A new drought map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows extreme drought retreating from Franklin County and an increasing amount of the state's area experiencing no drought whatsoever. A map of Ohio ...
The existing dam along the Muskingum River has reached the end of its lifespan and will be replaced. The dam was constructed in 1841 and reconstructed in 1959. It's been worked on many times ...
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).
Following the opening of the lock and dam at Davis Island in 1885, the venture proved to be worthy. In 1910, the Rivers and Harbors Act was authorized by Congress. The Act allowed the production of a system of locks and dams along the Ohio. In 1929, the canalization project on the Ohio River was finished.
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