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The communities of Dexter and Lowell are near the lake. Oregon Route 58 follows the lake's southern shore, while Pengra Road parallels the lake's northern shore as far east as Lowell. [4] Dexter Dam, 117 feet (36 m) high, impounds up to 29,900 acre-feet (36,900,000 m 3) of water in the reservoir. [3]
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)
Only five times has the lake reached the dam's spillway at a height of 640 feet (200 m) above sea level: 1957, 1990, 2007, and twice in 2015. It takes its name from Denison, Texas, just downriver from the damface. Denison Dam contains a total of 18.8 million cubic yards (14,000,000 m³) of rolled-earth fill.
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.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.7 square miles (4.4 km 2), of which 1.7 square miles (4.4 km 2) is land and 0.58% is water. Clayton, located in the Kiamichi River valley, is framed on its west by Flagpole Mountain (1,562 ft.) and to its east by unnamed mountains topping 1,600 feet in elevation.
Two rounds of showers and thunderstorms affected eastern Oklahoma and the Ozarks between May 24–25, reaping a moist atmosphere characterized by precipitable water levels at least two standard deviations above normal over north-central Oklahoma and south-central Kansas. Widespread 1.5–4 in (38–102 mm) rainfalls occurred across the upper ...
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