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Left Hand Spring (Oklahoma) This page was last edited on 17 November 2019, at 19:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
The Oklahoma Plan for Tar Creek has listed four main objectives in the process: improving surface water quality, reducing exposure to lead dust, attenuating mine hazards, and land reclamation. [8] The University of Oklahoma's Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science has implemented a 1.2 million dollar passive water treatment ...
The Spavinaw Water Project was established to provide fresh water for Tulsa, Oklahoma from a site on Spavinaw Creek near the town of Spavinaw in Mayes County, Oklahoma. Planning and financing began in 1919, The project scope included site selection, designing and constructing a dam to impound the creek, a 55-mile long pipeline to carry water to ...
[1] [2] [3] Throughout its roughly 117,000 acre watershed, the creek is fed by small springs which contribute most of the estimated 15 million gallons of water that flow through it per day. [2] Spring Creek is listed as having high quality water, being one of only five bodies of water in the state having this rating. [3]
The importance of proper water treatment is crucial; especially with river-, and seawater, intake water quality can vary significantly (algae blooming in spring, storms and current stirring up sediments from the seafloor) which may have significant impact on the performance of the water treatment facilities.
Cold Springs was established in the valley of Otter Creek a bit after the creation of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Indian Reservation by lottery in 1901. The area was fertile, with a surplus of water. It was near the recently built Frisco Railroad. For a minor amount of time, two towns, North Cold Springs and South Cold Springs, existed adjacent ...
The Oklahoma Water Resources Board reported in 2015, that phosphorus levels had been declining in the Illinois River and its tributaries on the Oklahoma side of the state line. On October 1, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) issued for public comment the water quality model for the Illinois River. [10]