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Eufaula Dam is a dam across the Canadian River in Oklahoma. Completed in 1964, it impounds Eufaula Lake , one of the world's largest man-made lakes, covering 102,500 acres (41,500 hectares). The dam serves to provide flood control , water supply, navigation and hydroelectric power generation .
The Fort Gibson Dam is a gravity dam on the Grand (Neosho) River in Oklahoma, 5.4 mi (9 km) north of the town of Fort Gibson.The dam forms Fort Gibson Lake. The primary purposes of the dam and lake are flood control and hydroelectric power production, although supply of drinking water to local communities, as well as recreation, are additional benefits. [4]
Tenkiller Ferry Lake, or more simply, Lake Tenkiller, is a reservoir in eastern Oklahoma formed by the damming of the Illinois River.The earth-fill dam was constructed between 1947 and 1952 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for purposes of flood control, hydroelectric power generation, water supply and recreation.
The Pensacola Dam, also known as the Grand River Dam, is a multiple-arch buttress dam located between the towns of Disney and Langley on the Grand River in Mayes County, Oklahoma. The dam is operated by the Grand River Dam Authority and creates Grand Lake o' the Cherokees .
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A second water release from the dam took place on May 29, causing a 23.41 ft (7.14 m)-crest on the Arkansas River in Tulsa; this was the river's second highest crest in the city on record. [1]: 1 A neighborhood on the western side of Sand Springs were flooded by both water releases from Keystone Lake. [20]
In May 2019, a series of severe thunderstorms dropped precipitation across northern Oklahoma. The water ran down streams and into Keystone Lake. In response, the US Army Corps of Engineers began to release water from the Keystone Dam into the Arkansas River.
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]