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Work at Wolf Creek Dam continues, but Corps says the end is now in sight
Posted November 23, 2011 at 4:08 pm
by Alan B. Gibson
Clinton County News Editor
One of the hardest tasks to accomplish is to stop a leak in any structure that has significant age, and for the past several years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working, and spending millions, in an effort to accomplish just that at nearby Wolf Creek Dam.
Since 2006, after it was announced that a significant amount of water was seeping through and underneath the mile-long structure just north of Clinton County, the Corps has been attempting to stop the flow of water and once again make Wolf Creek Dam a safe structure.
That attempt has included a process of pumping a grout material into the cave-filled, or karst, geometry Wolf Creek dam was built upon in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
That grouting effort was made to fill voids that lie out of sight, but not out of mind, below the surface of the dam, and make way for the next portion of the rehabilitation project, the construction of a concrete barrier wall that would be installed on the Lake Cumberland side of the earthen portion of the dam, and extend downward to a depth of 275 feet below the normal summer pool level of the lake.
