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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)
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.
In June 2012, the City of Stillwater agreed to sell the Lone Chimney Water Association Up 2,000,000 US gallons (7,600 m 3) of treated water per month for 30 years. [4] In 2012, drought had severely damaged the capability to supply water to about 16,000 customers, because the lake level had dropped 11 feet (3.4 m) below normal.
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 (47 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]
From February 2011 the lake's water level remained low due to the lack of heavy rainfall because of the then ongoing drought and water usage by residents of Oklahoma City. [5] The City expected that the lake would return to levels high enough to allow recreational use by late fall 2013. [6]
The Caney River (Lenape: Kènii Sipu [4]) is a 180-mile-long (290 km) [1] river in southern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma.The river is a tributary of the Verdigris River, and is usually a flatwater stream.
People take to the water for the 4th of July Holiday at Lake Thunderbird on Thursday, July 3, 2014, in Norman, Okla. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman Many central Oklahomans have come to know ...
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)