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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)
Optima Lake was built to be a reservoir in Texas County, Oklahoma.The site is just north of Hardesty and east of Guymon in the Oklahoma Panhandle. [2]The earthen Optima Lake Dam (National ID # OK20510) was completed in 1978 (46 years ago) () by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, with a height of 120 feet (37 m), and a length at its crest of 16,875 feet (5,144 m). [3]
At normal levels the lake contains 322,700 acre-feet (398,000,000 m 3) of water. Skiatook Lake is the fifteenth largest lake in Oklahoma in surface area and the eleventh largest in capacity (acre-feet). [2] (See List of lakes in Oklahoma)
The top of the flood control pool is 1,044.5 feet (318.4 m), while the normal operating level is 1,010 feet. [2] The Arkansas River just below the spillway at Kaw Lake as water is being released after heavy rainfall, July 14, 2007. The Reservoir covers approximately 17,040 acres (69 km²). It is the seventh largest lake in Oklahoma by surface area.
Canton Lake is a lake in Blaine and Dewey Counties in Oklahoma, near Longdale and Canton. Its main source of water is the North Canadian River. It is about an hour away from Enid. The lake serves as a municipal water supply reservoir for Oklahoma City, which pays to have water released from the lake for water-supply purposes. [2]
Lake Thunderbird is a reservoir located in Norman, Oklahoma. The lake was constructed between 1962 and 1965 for the purpose of providing municipal water to the nearby communities of Del City, Midwest City and Norman. It is formed by an earthfill embankment 7,300 feet (2,200 m) long and up to 144 feet (44 m) high on the Little River. In addition ...
Water sources include the Canadian, North Fork Canadian and Deep Fork rivers. [1] It is the largest-capacity lake in the state of Oklahoma with a volume of 2,099,000 acre-feet (2.589 × 10 9 m 3), a surface area of 102,000 acres (410 km 2) and 600 miles (970 km) of shoreline. [2]
Pine Creek Lake comprises 3,750 acres (15.2 km 2) of area and 74 miles (119 km) of shoreline.Normal pool elevation is 438 feet (134 m) above sea level. Its flood pool capacity is 465,780 acre-feet (574,530,000 m 3), at which time its flood pool is at an elevation of 480 feet (150 m) above sea level.