It's a BIG Lake!

You've probably heard the stats before:  Kentucky Lake is 184 miles long.  Kentucky Lake has 2,064 miles of shoreline.  Over 160,000 acres of water. 

But have you ever heard of these statistics??

∙ Kentucky Lake has a flood storage capacity of 1.3 trillion gallons of water

∙ Kentucky Dam, at any given moment, is spilling 29.9 million gallons of water every second!

∙ When all the gates are open, the dam can spill upwards of 3 billion gallons of water every second!

∙ If Kentucky Lake was at the maximum level, there would be enough water for the world's population (6.5 billion) to drink a cup a day for nearly nine years!

∙ When just 4 of the 24 gates are open at Kentucky Dam, more water flows through the dam than over Niagra Falls!