Barren River Lake water level

What this level means

Station 03312900, BARREN RIVER LAKE NEAR FINNEY, KY, publishes the water surface elevation used here. The Corps of Engineers puts the top of the flood pool at 590.0 ft. The conservation pool tops out at 552.0 ft. The last value stored here, 552.37 ft, is from 2026-09-09. The top of the dam sits at 618.0 ft. Check the reading the morning you go if your plan depends on a specific ramp.

How this reading is taken

USGS gauge 03312900 measures the water surface and publishes the value continuously. This page stores the latest reading at build time and refreshes the record daily, so the figure above is a real measurement rather than a model or an estimate.

Full pool for Barren River Lake is 552.0 ft, so the gap between the reading and that number is what the reservoir is missing.

Elevations are given in feet above the gauge datum used by the operating agency. Two lakes are only comparable with each other through how full they are, not through their raw elevation, because each dam sits at a different height.