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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 lake varies from 2,890 acres (11.7 km 2) in the winter to 5,795 acres (23.45 km 2) in ...
Nolin Lake State Park is a park located in Edmonson County, Kentucky, ... On May 25, 1983, Nolin Lake set a record high of 549.9 mean sea level. References
Nolin River Lake, impounded by Nolin River Dam in Edmonson County. 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.
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Members of the Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency, an area advocacy group, worry that raising the water level will make flooding worse at the lake's upstream rivers.
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).
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
Green River is now free-flowing throughout Mammoth Cave National Park though water levels are impacted by releases from Green River Lake upstream. This has allowed for increased canoeing and kayaking opportunities from Nolin Dam to Brownsville, and has added more land to the National Park on the west bank of Green River.