That's big news.

I wonder if Dale Hollow will also be affected?

 

that's big sad news! too bad we aren't on the same water chain as cumberland, we could use the water in Clarkshill. gre:

 

Man that sucks. We boat on a man made lake, and back in 95 the spring and summer was so dry that some of the marinas were pulling boats in July because of low water levels..

 

man that would suck, hope there are other lakes/rivers around.

 

Wow, that's sucks! Lake Cumberland is a great lake to boat on. I wonder what the three marinas affected will do?

 

My guess is that both the Alligator marinas and either Conley Bottom or Lee's Ford marinas would stand the best chance of being effected. There are a lot of boats moored in those marinas that would have to be moved to other moorings or even pulled off the water. Who would want to make payments on and maintain an expensive boat for 5 years while stuck in dry dock. I would suspect there will be a lot of boats coming up for sale around the area.

Heck, a 43 foot drop would mean one would have to beach the boat and hike back to 76 falls! It would however be nice to recover a few pair of my sunglasses.

 

I heard about it on the news today, every waterfront home would be effected too wouldnt it? That's unbelievable, sounds like nobody had any idea it was coming.

 

Man. I was planning on doing the Cumberland Poker run this summer, I wonder if they will cancel?

 

The Donzi "Awakening of The Horses" rally in May (I attended the inaugral one in 2000) will feel it too. Wonder what 76 Falls looks like with the low water? Most boat ramps will be unusable.

 

Sad News!

I would think that some day they will have to do this on the Great Sacandaga lake....

The dams dont last forever

 

The Donzi "Awakening of The Horses" rally in May (I attended the inaugral one in 2000) will feel it too. Wonder what 76 Falls looks like with the low water? Most boat ramps will be unusable.

Maybe Cranes..

 

I'm sure this guys looking for work

 

I'm sure the Mafiaso who owned it is looking for him too....... :laugher:

 

Lake Powell (albeit larger than Cumberland) has been 100' + below normal for a few years now and Mead is close behind. Ramps have been exteneded and floating marinas moved further out. Not sure if Cumberland has the topography to support those measures or not, but sux none the less.

 

Back in the 77 and 81 the lake was a few feet lower than what they are proposing now to fix the dam..


From cumberland.com

- Reference Lake Statistics Section - Cumberland.com
- 1/27/81 - 675ft
- 2/9/77 - 677ft


Plus with Low Lake Levels who knows what may show up at Cemetary point again..

 

This will really bite, I would expect the project to take longer than estimated as usual.

 

Back in the 77 and 81 the lake was a few feet lower than what they are proposing now to fix the dam..


From cumberland.com

- Reference Lake Statistics Section - Cumberland.com
- 1/27/81 - 675ft
- 2/9/77 - 677ft


Plus with Low Lake Levels who knows what may show up at Cemetary point again..

ok i gotta ask what the heck is cemetary point.

 

:shocked: :shocked: this is going to really hurt alotta people might be some nice Formula's coming uip for sale, and garmin needs to come out with a new map :winker:

 

ok i gotta ask what the heck is cemetary point.

It's just that, Back when the flooded the valley they flooded a Cemetary. A few years ago in late Oct. the water was so low a few wooded coffins came up

Posted below are pictures

 

The same thing happend at Alum Creek in Delaware, OH. The lake was built as a back up for Hoover Dam, not the big hoover dam, for Columbus's drinking water. Anyway a church that was built where the lake stands now burnt down and all the records of the cemetary were lost. So they moved all the graves with head stones, but back in the day a lot of people couldn't afford headstones, so when the records were lost so were the graves.

I believe it was 94 or 95 the water got real low and they were still letting boaters out and the turbualnce caused some coffins to come a float, they tried getting them out with a back hoe but a water logged coffin... you get the picture, wasn't pretty.

But that does suck about cumberland. I've gone down there every year since high school, a lot of coves and creeks will be gone. It will though be interesting to see what it looks like that low.

 

Anybody know which marinas are affected?

 

Our lake here (Travis) has been down about 30-40ft for past year,happens every 5-10 years, then it floods every 5-10 years. Historic low was 614ft and historic high 710ft(4ft below dam spillway).
You learn to deal with it..
Even at the current low level there is still 16ft under the hull of my boat at the marina right at the shoreline.
Im sure they will find a way to deal with it as well at Cumberland.

 

43' incredible, everyone feel free to come up to MI this summer Murray Lake is only 320 acres but we'll have fun!

 

So your saying there will be more parking around the ramps this summer :laugher:

 

More places to launch.... LC is going to be terrible this summer....the (sky) lake is falling..... everyone please go elsewhere....

Seriously...less shoreline, more to watch for in the creeks, 76 falls and party cove inaccessable.....not that big of a deal.......I guess we'll have to find other places on the +/- 1000 miles of shoreline left to enjoy the lake.

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