Friday, August 12, 2022

1842 Kentucky River Lock and Dam #4 near Frankfort, KY

(Satellite)

This was part of the Kentucky River Waterway.

Satellite

This shows that the lock is a lot taller than the normal upper pool level. I presume that is because the dam does not have any controllable gates and has to be tall enough to keep flood waters from overtopping the gates. We can still see the cut stone construction of the lock.
Natalie McCormick, Jul 2020

The motivation for researching this L&D is that it is a location of a NOAA station for the Kentucky River.
FrankfortBoatClub

And that page has links to 18 photos.
1
Gage House

2
Wire Weight Gage

3
Upstream from the Gage Showing Quarry

4
Downstream from the Gage

5
Wilson Street at Bellepoint Park

6
Upstream from Lock

7
Upper Staff Sections

8
Upper Pool Staff Gage

9
Upper Pool Lock Gate

10
Upper Pool

11
Lower Lock Staff Gage

12
Lock Chamber and Lock Lock Gate

13
Highest Staff Section

14
Downstream From Lock

15
Dam from the Left Bank

16
Dam from the Right Bank

17
Old Lockmaster House

18
Flood Levee In South Frankfort



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