89° 88° 87° 86° 85° 84° 83° 82° WATER USE Underground Broke Leg Falls KENTUCKY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Estimated water use in gallons per day (2001) Percentage of rural Kentucky population that is James C. Cobb, State Geologist and Director self-supplied who rely on groundwater ...... 90 UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON Water suppliers ...... 529,360,000 Approximate number of people who rely on private Mining ...... 23,350,000 sources of groundwater (wells or springs)...... 400,000 MAP AND CHART 102 Industrial (self-supplied)...... 317,230,000 Newport SERIES XII, 2005 Number of private domestic water wells installed COVINGTON Dayton River Basins of Kentucky Commercial (self-supplied) ...... 16,306,000 since July 1985...... 35,070 Cave Run Lake Aquaculture...... 27,771,000 275 Fort Thomas Villa Hills 471 Number of public water supplies that depend on Silver Grove 39° 39° Daniel I. Carey and Terry D. Hounshell Power production...... 203,000,000 Ft. Mitchell groundwater...... 226 Burlington Erlanger Melbourne TOTAL...... 1,117,000,000 275 Licking Population served by public systems supplied by Florence OHIO Edgewood groundwater...... 1.2 million+ BOONE 10 0 10 20 30 40 Miles Or about 408 billion gallons per year, not including Alexandria Union Independence Ryland N agriculture, household, and other self-supplied uses. Heights KENTUCKY WATER RESOURCES Big Bone California 75 Visalia 10 0 10 20 30 40 50 Kilometers Lick State CAMPBELL Mentor WHERE THE WATER OCCURS Average annual rainfall...... 40 – 50 inches Park KENTON Maximum ...... winter and spring Walton State surface area (square miles) ...... 40,409 42 R 27 Minimum...... late summer and fall ive Major drainage basins ...... 12 Bullock Pen r The Charity Regatta, 2004, courtesy of the Cave Run Sailing Association, Broke Leg Falls in the upper Basin. Photo courtesy Lake www.caverunsailing.org. EXPLANATION of Calvin Lindell. 71 Butler Foster On the surface Kincaid Augusta Warsaw Crittenden 9 Dover Big Sandy River Basin 89,431 PENDLETON Lake State Miles of rivers and streams ...... Kentucky River Palisades GALLATIN Park Kincaid South For information on obtaining copies of this map Ghent Shore and other Kentucky Geological Survey maps Miles of rivers bordering other states ...... 849 Boltz 25 Lake OHIO Basin Milton Glencoe Lake Brooksville RIVE and publications call: 637,000 CARROLL Williamstown Falmouth Maysville R Public Information Center Acres of wetlands...... Carrollton Sparta Dry Ridge 10 Cave Run Lake offers peaceful scenes for quiet contemplation as well Lake as opportunities for sailing, boating, and fishing. Photo courtesy of John Basin (859) 257-3896 ext. 126 Number of more than 1,000 acres in size ...... 18 421 + Gen. Butler State BRACKEN 10 Toll free: (877) 778-7827 ext. 126 1 Resort Park Sanders MASON Vanceburg 23 A. Wright. Acres of publicly owned lakes and reservoirs ...... 228,385 TRIMBLE 55 K 127 Kentucky River Basin e Williamstown th n GRANT N or Fork 9 Greenup Worthington View the KGS World Wide Web site at t Worthville www.uky.edu/kgs Bedford u Creek Wurtland c Mount Licking River Basin k Russell Source: Kentucky Division of Water, www.water.ky.gov y GREENUP Raceland Copyright © 2005 INDIANA Olivet 62 State Resort Flatwoods Little Sandy River- University of Kentucky Campbellsburg Owenton Berry Ashland Tygarts Creek Basin Kentucky Geological Survey 68 LEWIS Park Cypress Swamp Greenbo South ROBERTSON Lake Gratz Corinth 9 1 Catletts- Basin HENRY OWEN 11 burg Ea 42 71 Fork Ewing s + HARRISON Blue Licks t Basin New Castle 2 ts River Monterey Battlefield Flemingsburg Carter Caves ar Ohio River Record Flood Goshen La Grange 3 + State Park State Resort Tyg 64 Salt River Basin Smithfield Cynthiana Li Park CARTER Big OLDHAM Sadieville cki 60 Pleasureville ng FLEMING BOYD River Bluff Eminence Fork R River Basin Prospect NICHOLAS Grayson S Crestwood i v SCOTT 62 y a Millersburg n e River Olive Hill d

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55 Stamping a y LOUISVILLE State Park The Kentucky River Palisades, with steep scenic gorges and limestone Ground S Grayson R Anchorage 27 68 Upper Cumberland River Basin outcrops, overlook the river for nearly 100 miles between Franklin and i 264 Middletown 421 Lake v WEST Madison Counties. Photo by Steve Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey. Shelbyville Guist Creek FRANKLIN 25 e Simpsonville BOURBON BATH State Park r State Capital Lake 4 Georgetown 3 Shively + 460 Sharpsburg Morehead LAWRENCE VIRGINIA JEFFERSON FRANKFORT Paris 64 7 60 460 e County Seat Jeffersontown Owingsville tl Yatesville Louisa RIVER 31E 64 75 Kentucky it Horse Park 60 L Lake State 265 Midway North Middletown Cave Run ELLIOTT Park Incorporated City 65 SHELBY FAYETTE 127 WOODFORD Salt Lick Lake Sandy Hook k r State Park Hollyvilla LEXINGTON Yatesville o Mount Lake F This cypress swamp, just north of John James Audubon State Park, lies within the 31W Hillview Taylorsville Versailles CLARK 38° 38° 5 + 64 Sterling Blaine Kentucky River Lock and Dam Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands ecological region, which covers northern Henderson Mount State Lawrenceburg 60 10 OHIO Park 62 MONTGOMERY County along the Ohio River. Photo courtesy of Glynn Beck, Kentucky Geological MEADE Washington Taylorsville iver B West Point Shepherdsville Lake R ert T Camargo Parkway or Interstate Highway Survey. S 4 . Com MORGAN 24 Brandenburg a b Jeffersonville This picture of the 1937 flood in Paducah was taken before the Ohio River crested on SaltANDERSON s a l SPENCER 27 s t Winchester February 2, 1937. Floodwaters covered more than 90 percent of the city, and flood Frenchburg 23 i Tug U.S. Highway 15 11 West Liberty JOHNSON v 45 R y. 68 Fort Paintsville e 645 damage exceeded $22 million. Photo courtesy of the William Clark Market House Lewisport iv BULLITT Pkw L L Ekron er s 6 + Boonesborough ic Lake Paintsville Museum. G ras k State Primary Highway Fairfield Bloomfield G State Park MENIFEE in Lake State Inez 61 r Blue + e 10 River g Park Warfield e Clay City John James 231 Red 460 Audubon n Hawesville Irvington 60 R Nicholasville 40 County Boundary ol NELSON MERCER 40 Fork State Park 60 60 lin 205 R g Lebanon Wilmore + 9 Henderson iv Radcliff 127 + 7 75 Stanton River R State Boundary e r Junction Bardstown 555 Willisburg JESSAMINE i Paintsville MARTIN Audubon Ben Hawes Natural M ve 460 3 HENDERSON State Park HANCOCK Cloverport 61 ky MADISON POWELL ou r Salyersville Hardinsburg 62 Lincoln Old Fort Herrington c 11 + Bridge State nt 191 E Vine Grove llins Harrod tu Resort Park ai d Co Homestead n n Parkway Uniontown w 65 ayne My Old 55 State Park Lake e Richmond a Parkway Owensboro a L State Park r arth K d M Kentucky Mackville Harrodsburg + Campton Meeting of Two Great Rivers T W Home State 150 Burgin 8 Waverly . Corydon i HARDIN Irvine Jenny Wiley B l BRECKINRIDGE Park 27 Prestonsburg li WOLFE Morganfield r a F 31E 52 30 State Resort e m or Ravenna Robards a Whitesville k WASHINGTON 114 Park t H + N h 231 56 DAVIESS . Elizabethtown GARRARD 11 o i Springfield r t N 12 th MAGOFFIN t a Rough River Danville Allen 119 431 tc New Haven ESTILL h Fordsville Dam State 52 52 7 L UNION 56 e Rough Perryville Lancaster 25 e 56 r Resort Park FLOYD v River Lake + is Loretto 34 421 13 Beattyville Jackson a 23 Sebree Hodgenville Martin 460 McLEAN P Berea a gh Junction City ILLINOIS rk ou r Raywick Lebanon Dix + M F 41A 41 e BOYLE 52 F Sturgis w R Riv LEE 14 id o PIKE Calhoun a o r y 259 d BREATHITT k WEBSTER River MARION l r 79 e k

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36° 36° Photo courtesy of the Nashville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, www.lrn.usace.army.mil/op/mar/rec/. Photo courtesy of the Huntington District, U.S. Army Corps of Kentucky Lake is one of the world's largest man-made lakes, with over Known as the "Niagara of the South," Cumberland Falls is 125 feet wide and almost During the flood of March 1963, the North Fork of the Kentucky River Engineers, www.lrh.usace.army.mil/projects/lakes/frl/. Typical cypress swamp in the Obion Creek watershed 2,000 miles of shoreline. Photo by Jim Garrett, courtesy of Green River Lake, Campbellsville, is a haven for fishing and water sports. Photo courtesy of In karst regions of Kentucky, such as the Green River Basin, streams commonly disappear 60 feet high. When a full moon is visible, visitors can see a "moonbow" (rainbow) in crested at 37 feet above flood stage at Hazard. Photo courtesy of of the Mississippi River Basin. Photo by Glynn Beck, www.kentuckylake.com. www.greenriverlake.net. beneath the surface. The flow then moves through caves and conduits and may re-emerge the mist created by the falls. Photo from Kentucky Geological Survey archive. Shane Sparkman, www.hazardkentucky.com. Kentucky Geological Survey. in a different watershed. Illustration courtesy of Jim Currens, Kentucky Geological Survey.

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