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Lake Flint Creek, also known as SWEPCO Lake, [1] is located about five miles north of the City of Siloam Springs in Benton County, Arkansas. [2] It was made by constructing a 100’ high dam on Little Flint Creek in the 1975-1978 timeframe, creating a lake of about 500 acres.
As part of the project, SWEPCO constructed a 100’ high dam on Little Flint Creek to create a reservoir to provide cooling water to the plant. [2] The reservoir, known as Lake Flint Creek or SWEPCO Lake, provides fishing opportunities and is open to the public. [3]
Today SWEPCO continues to provide electrical power, and SWEPCO Lake (shown on maps as "Lake Flint Creek") is used for fishing and recreation. To ease traffic through downtown, a new Arkansas Highway 12 bypass was built on the southern edge of town. In the early 1970s, the Wild Wilderness Drive-Through Safari was established north of town.
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[3] [4] [5] It was impounded in the 1975-1978 timeframe to form Lake Flint Creek, a 500-acre reservoir that provides cooling water to the Flint Creek Power Plant as well as fishing to the general public. [6] [7] Flint Creek goes on to flow into Oklahoma, eventually joining the Illinois River. [8] [9]
A Shreveport lawyer has been named the vice president of External Affairs at Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO). Monday SWEPCO announced that William C. Bradford has assumed his new role ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Arkansas, separated by fuel type.. In 2021, Arkansas had a summer capacity of 14,832 megawatts, and a net generation of 61,100 gigawatt-hours. [2]
It is operated by SWEPCO, a subsidiary of AEP. The plant is named after J. Robert Welsh, a former President and Board Chairman of SWEPCO. [1] History.