Boaters headed for the big sister waters of Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley are cautioned: Nowadays, the bottom is a little closer to the surface.
The two canal-linked reservoirs are well into the late summer-autumn drawdown. The effects of this are that both lakes are about two feet lower/shallower than they were just a few weeks ago.
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