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John Redmond Reservoir serves as a reserve water supply for the Wolf Creek Generating Station located 5 miles (8.0 km) east. During construction of the facility, a second reservoir, Coffey County Lake, was created to serve as a water source so a cooling tower would not be required.
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
In Kansas, a dam upstream of Council Grove forms Council Grove Lake, and a dam near New Strawn forms John Redmond Reservoir. There are also 12 dams in between John Redmond and the Kansas border, including lowhead dams at Burlington, Neosho Falls, Ottawa, Iola, Humboldt, two near Chanute and Erie.
The city of New Strawn came about when John Redmond Reservoir was built in the early 1960s, causing the original town of Strawn to be claimed by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood area. [4] The old city of Strawn is usually available for exploration, but will be underwater if the lake is up.
Cheney Reservoir is a reservoir on the North Fork Ninnescah River in Reno, Kingman, and Sedgwick counties of Kansas in the United States. [5] Built and managed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation for local water supply, it is also used for flood control and recreation.
It was established in 1966 as part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, John Redmond Reservoir flood control project. [1] The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service manages 18,463 acres (75 km 2) upstream of the reservoir, most of which is in the floodplain of the Neosho River.
Coffey County Lake (5,090 acres (2,060 ha), pumped from the John Redmond Reservoir and the Neosho River) Thermal capacity: 1 × 3565 MW th: Power generation; Units operational: 1 × 1200 MW: Make and model: WH 4-loop (DRYAMB) Nameplate capacity: 1200 MW: Capacity factor: 101.29% (2017) 84.90% (lifetime) Annual net output: 10,648 GWh (2017 ...
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