Despite recent rain reprieves, and more on the way this weekend and next, west Kentucky does remain in severe-to-extreme drought conditions.
And officials with the Tennessee Valley Authority are well aware, and seemingly prepared.
Knoxville’s TVA River Forecast Center Water Resource Engineer Ben Heath confirmed to the News Edge earlier this week that Kentucky Lake has already been filled to summer pool, about 360 feet, and that Lake Barkley is just as full…