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Welcome to Murray State University's Hancock Biological Station/Center for Reservoir Research's KENTUCKY LAKE site. Below you will find the present water conditions for Kentucky Lake within the past half hour. You can look at the changes over the past day, week, or month by selecting the parameters and the time period at the left side of this page. Under Monitoring Sites, you can select parameters for water at the lake surface (1 meter depth = about 3 feet) or 1 meter off the bottom.

Click here to learn more about what each of parameters mean.
To see Kentucky Lake weather conditions, click here.
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Retrieve Average Daily Data From
Water Quality Monitoring Station Data Archives:

Monitoring Sites:

Output Format:

Parameters (select one or more):

Temperature (°F)

Temperature (°C)

Specific Conductance (µS/cm)

Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)

pH (SU)

Oxidation-Reduction Potential (mV)

Turbidity (NTU)

Chlorophyll a (µg/L)
       surface site only

Lake Elevation (fsl)

Battery Charge (V)

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From Date (after 02/16/05):

To Date (on or before 11/07/09):

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 Our bottom recording instrument went out of service on Oct. 5th 2009. Please bear with us as we work with the manufacturer to have it repaired and reinstalled.
MOST RECENTLY RECORDED CONDITIONS
 
PARAMETER
 SURFACE
at 1.764 meters		 BOTTOM
at 2.620 meters
Date and Time 11/07/2009 8:01 PM 10/05/2009 1:15 AM
Water Temperature
(degrees Fahrenheit)		 60.01
°F		 70.56
°F
Water Temperature
(degrees Celsius)		 15.56
°C		 21.42
°C
Specific Conductance
(microsiemens per centimeter)		 176
µS/cm		 186
µS/cm
Dissolved Oxygen
(milligrams per liter)		 9.20
mg/L		 7.39
mg/L
pH
(standard pH units)		 7.26 7.67
Oxidation-Reduction Potential
(millivolts)		 262
mV		 289
mV
Turbidity
(nephlometric turbidity units)		 21.98
NTU		 4.28
NTU
Chlorophyll a
(micrograms per liter)		 1.5
µg/L		  
Lake Elevation
(feet above sea level)		 355.79
fsl
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Last Updated on September 3, 2009
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