The Kentucky Dam in Western Kentucky, Land Between the Lakes, Great Blue Heron

Kentucky Dam is a dam on the Tennessee River on the dividing line between Livingston and Marshall Counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It impounds Kentucky Lake, which is 184 miles long, and is the largest artificial lake in the eastern United States, at 160,000 acres, with a shoreline of 2,380 miles . Its 4,008,000 acre feet of flood storage capacity are used to reduce flooding on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. It has saved an estimated $200 million in flood damage to approximately 6 million acres of land in the lower Ohio and Mississippi valleys. is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River. It is 22 miles upstream of the confluence of the Tennessee and Ohio Rivers near Paducah, Kentucky. A canal connects Kentucky Lake to nearby Lake Barkley, created by Barkley Dam on the Cumberland River. The lakes run parallel for more than 50 miles , with the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area located between them.

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[jgmtiger]

@GreenGirlie15 thats why they have the sign they dont let anyone that close anymore you cant be 1000ft from it or mega ticket for you and thats kinda hard to beleave when the turbines push water out not suck it in shoudl would of had to been on the other side of the damn wich is hard to get to that close and very illegal

[GreenGirlie15]

I got really scared because my mother told me a story about how these people were out fishing in a boat and they got in were the turbines were and she missed everyone of them and survived and im really scared just to drive past it now...