The Laurel River runs for 42 miles through Whitley and Laurel counties in Kentucky before draining into the Upper Cumberland River. The river flows from foothills of the Appalachian Mountains before meandering through the two rural counties until its impoundment at Laurel River Lake, a reservoir created by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1974.
The Cumberland River Basin project aims to promote the ecological and economical health of the Cumberland River Basin, an 18,000 square mile region that stretches across 70 Tennessee and Kentucky counties and home to more than 2 million people.
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