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The level of Lake Cumberland  peaked at 756.52 feet above sea level this morning. That’s about five feet above the previous high level set in 1984.  The US Army Corps of Engineers continues its record setting release of water through the dam at 58,740 CF per second.
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Had it reached 760, is that just an uncontrolled release over the top of the gates?


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facebook video on the ground yesterday...
 

Darrell Littrell was live.
on Sunday · 
Wolf Creek Dam.
60,000 cubic feet per sec of water being released. They're hauling Rock and boulders the water is up so high that it's washing the bank out where the electric Transformers are
 
confirmed bringing in truck after truck of gravel and boulders building a wall
 

facebook video on the ground yesterday...

 

 

Darrell Littrell was live.

on Sunday · 

Wolf Creek Dam.

60,000 cubic feet per sec of water being released. They're hauling Rock and boulders the water is up so high that it's washing the bank out where the electric Transformers are

 

confirmed bringing in truck after truck of gravel and boulders building a wall

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LakeCumberlandBoaterscom/permalink/10156820548900801?sfns=mo

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Wolf Creek hasn't updated for 4 hours now.


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2) Cumberland lake looks to make it to 756 at least now....it is clear this evening there are worried about hillside erosion under/near the transmission towers..at outflow 58,000..any increase in outflow would increase that erosion..if that tower tips they might loose the power plant controls and./or the spillway gate controls...??? not sure about that though...went back and looked at the video...if appears they are trying to fill in the eroded area with gravel
 
The had similar issues at oroville on the main spillway ...they were worried about back erosion cutting way at a vital transmission tower so they had to decrease outflow on the damaged main spillway..from 65,000 to 50,000 bfs and in the meantime the lake overflowed and went over the emergency spillway witch started back cutting that away....and almost eroded out the side of the Dam...in that case, since they had no choice,  they increased flow to 100,000 on the main spillway to get the level level lower ASAP....the tower ended up being fine in hindsight 

756.07 this morning. The graph is making a gradual turn to the right. Outflow is back up to 58k but inflow is still double that.


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575.15 at 2000z

54710cfs out

144084cfs in

They've brought the outflow down some as well. Might just be trying to stabilize it.

754.27 at 1800z




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Overall, it was the 64th highest recording. SE TN mountains were spared the worst part.

190,000 cfs inflow !!. where did you get this info.?...been looking for it online
the outflow of 60,000 is exepcted later today...they are lucky they didn't get trained like Knoxville yesterday morning...
like I said the other day they should have increased outflows earlier (25 to 35K-40) two days ago...If they would have done that ..60K wouldn't be needed perhaps
 
thanks
 

Looks like the record has been broken.


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