Courtesy Photo | Aerial photo of the construction at Barkley Dam in Kuttawa, Ky., taken Nov. 12, 1963. ...... read more read more
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 9, 2016) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is inviting the public to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Barkley Dam during a ceremony 11 a.m. Aug. 20, 2016 at the Spillway Shelter below the dam. The project is named after the late Alben W. Barkley, attorney, county judge, United States senator, and 35th vice president of the United States.
Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, Nashville District commander; Justice Bill Cunningham, Kentucky Supreme Court; Judge Shea Nickell, Kentucky Court of Appeals; are speaking at the ceremony.
The Spillway Shelter is located at 8439 U.S. Highway 62 West in Kuttawa, Ky. A reception will follow at the Grand Rivers Community Center located at 155 West Cumberland Avenue in Grand Rivers, Ky. For more information about the event call the Lake Barkley Natural Resource Manager’s Office at (270) 362-4236.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey dedicated Barkley Dam Aug. 20, 1966. Kentucky Gov. Edward T. Breathitt, Tennessee Gov. Frank G. Clement and Chief of Engineers Lt. Gen. William F. Cassidy also made remarks at the dedication, which an estimated 5,500 people attended.
Located near the mouth of the Cumberland River, the $142 million multi-purpose project provides for flood risk reduction, navigation, hydropower production, and supplemental benefits in recreation and water supply. Construction of the project started in 1957. Barkley Dam is 10,180 feet long and 157 feet high. The lock chamber is 800-feet long and 110-feet wide, with a normal lift of 57 feet. The dam eliminated five obsolete locks and dams on the lower Cumberland River and opened the entire basin to a new era of economic improvement.
Lake Barkley stretches 118 miles upstream and has 880 miles of shoreline and 57,920 acres of surface area. Barkley Canal, also built during the dam construction project, is nearly two miles long and the only free-flowing waterway in the nation linking major lakes on two principal rivers, the Cumberland River and Tennessee River. It has a bottom width of 400 feet and provides a minimum channel of 11 feet.
(For more information about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, visit the district’s website at www.lrn.usace.army.mil, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/nashvillecorps and http://www.facebook.com/lakebarkley, and on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/nashvillecorps.)
| Date Taken: | 08.09.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 08.09.2016 16:43 |
| Story ID: | 206599 |
| Location: | NASHVILLE, TN, US |
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