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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)
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]
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)
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]
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.
Oklahoma Lake is located in north east Oklahoma City in the Canadian river valley and borders the North Canadian River by Westminster Road. The surface area is around 60 ares (65,000 sq ft) with a 0.5 ares (540 sq ft) island and the shoreline is primarily sand.
Grand Lake has a surface area of 41,779 [7] acres (169.07 km 2) of water, a storage volume of 1,515,416 acre-feet, [7] and 1,366 [8] miles (2,198 km) of shoreline. Unlike other lakes in Oklahoma, Grand Lake is a deep and mostly rocky lake. The average depth for Grand Lake is 36.3 feet. [7] Its mean elevation is 745 [8] ft (227 m) above sea ...