JAMESTOWN, Ky.- The Army Corps of Engineers says that work on the massive dam in Kentucky is actually a little ahead of schedule.
The nearly mile-long structure holds Lake Cumberland, the largest man-made reservoir east of the Mississippi River.
This work is very important because if the Wolf Creek Dam were ever to fail, waters released would flood much of middle Tennessee including downtown Nashville. The devastation would be worse than the flood in May of 2010. "It would be about 3 or 4 feet higher water in downtown Nashville than what they experienced in 2010," said Lieutenant Colonel James DeLapp, who assumed command of the Corps' Nashville Branch last summer.
Everything they're doing is reinforcing patch work done after sink holes started popping up in the 1960s. Repairs should be finished by the end of next year.
