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Cave Run Lake water level today

Reservoir in Bath, Kentucky · Licking River

730.02ft
222.51 m · NGVD29
Measured · provisional
Much above normal for the dateSteady
vs full pool ?
▲ 0.02 ft
24 hours
▼ 0.01 ft
7 days
▲ 0.49 ft
30 days
▼ 0.11 ft
Normal for Oct 21 ?
728.01 ft

What this means

Cave Run Lake is 0.02 ft above its full pool of 730.00 ft.

It is lower than on Oct 21 in 1 of the last 10 years.

The lake has risen 0.49 ft in 7 days and fallen 0.11 ft in 30 days.

Since 2001, the lowest daily level was 724.09 ft (Mar 2013) and the highest 761.09 ft (Apr 2015).

Cave Run Lake level chart

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Measured Normal range for the date (middle 50% of past years) Full pool

Same date in past years

DateLevelvs today
Oct 21, 2025728.82 ft▼ 1.20 ft
Oct 21, 2024729.21 ft▼ 0.81 ft
Oct 21, 2023728.76 ft▼ 1.26 ft
Oct 21, 2022728.82 ft▼ 1.20 ft
Oct 21, 2021728.06 ft▼ 1.96 ft
Oct 21, 2020728.78 ft▼ 1.24 ft
Oct 21, 2019728.69 ft▼ 1.33 ft
Oct 21, 2018732.84 ft▲ 2.82 ft
Oct 21, 2017726.06 ft▼ 3.96 ft
Oct 21, 2016728.59 ft▼ 1.43 ft

Records & details

Highest
761.09 ft on Apr 20, 2015
Lowest
724.09 ft on Mar 16, 2013
Records from
2001 (25 years of daily data)
Full pool
730.00 ft (top of conservation pool, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers)
Storage
222,748 acre-ft
Inflow
54.4 cfs (1.54 m³/s)
Outflow
54.4 cfs (1.54 m³/s)
Water temperature
Not measured here

What acre-feet and % full mean

Full history: yearly highs and lows, monthly averages →

Weather & wind

This Afternoon70°F · Sunny
Wind N 3 mph
Tonight43°F · Clear then Areas Of Fog
Wind N 2 mph
Thursday67°F · Patchy Fog then Sunny
Wind N 0 to 5 mph
Thursday Night42°F · Mostly Clear then Areas Of Fog
Wind NNE 0 to 3 mph
Friday66°F · Areas Of Fog then Sunny
Wind ENE 1 to 5 mph
Friday Night41°F · Mostly Clear then Patchy Fog
Wind ENE 3 mph

NOAA National Weather Service forecast for this lake's location, updated 1 h ago.

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