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Lake Ellsworth is a lake in Caddo and Comanche counties in the state of Oklahoma in the United States. [1] It was built by the City of Lawton, Oklahoma in 1962, primarily to serve as a water supply source for Lawton and the surrounding area.
Lake Ellsworth was discovered in 1996 by British scientist Professor Martin Siegert of the University of Bristol; [12] it is one of 387 known subglacial Antarctic lakes and it is a target site for exploration due to the speculation that new forms of microbial life could have evolved in the unique habitats of Antarctica's sub-glacial lakes after half a million years of isolation.
Name Capacity in acre feet (normal pool) surface acres (normal pool) average depth water clarity Lake Texoma: 2,643,000: 88,000 acres (35,612 ha) 30 feet (9.1 m)
Members of the Local Environmental Action Demanded (LEAD) Agency, an area advocacy group, worry that raising the water level will make flooding worse at the lake's upstream rivers.
Lake Ellsworth or Ellsworth Lake may refer to: Lake Ellsworth (Antarctica), a subglacial lake; Lake Ellsworth (Oklahoma), a reservoir in Oklahoma;
The lake contains both saline and fresh water layers. [8] [9] Algae Lake: An ice-free lake in the ice-free Bunger Hills highlands. Amphitheatre Lake: A surface lake. Beaver Lake: A surface lake, near a "stagnant" glacier, its name derives from the STOL Beaver aircraft used to supply a nearby base, not from the presence of actual beavers. Lake ...
Lake Ellsworth Addition is a census-designated place (CDP) in Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2] The CDP is in northern Comanche County, to the northeast of Lake Ellsworth, an impoundment on East Cache Creek, a south-flowing tributary of the Red River. It sits just north of the ...
Gaston Dam – Lake Gaston; on the Roanoke River; built by the Virginia Electric Power Company (VEPCO) High Rock Lake – on the Yadkin River; built in 1927 by USACE and operated today by Alcoa; Hiwassee Dam – Hiwassee Reservoir; on the Hiwassee River; finished in 1940 by the TVA; B. Everett Jordan Lake – on the Haw River; built by USACE