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This is a list of Superfund sites in Oklahoma designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Spavinaw Water Project was established to provide fresh water for Tulsa, Oklahoma from a site on Spavinaw Creek near the town of Spavinaw in Mayes County, Oklahoma. Planning and financing began in 1919, The project scope included site selection, designing and constructing a dam to impound the creek, a 55-mile long pipeline to carry water to ...
[1] [2] [3] Throughout its roughly 117,000 acre watershed, the creek is fed by small springs which contribute most of the estimated 15 million gallons of water that flow through it per day. [2] Spring Creek is listed as having high quality water, being one of only five bodies of water in the state having this rating. [3]
"Bromide Pavilion" built by Civilian Conservation Corps in Platt National Park. Photo made July 12, 2007. In 1902, Orville H. Platt, a U.S. Senator from the state of Connecticut, introduced legislation to establish the 640-acre Sulphur Springs Reservation, protecting 32 freshwater and mineral springs, in Murray County, Oklahoma (then part of Indian Territory).
Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant, Washington, D.C. Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, including being safely returned to the environment.
Natural Falls State Park is a 120 acres (0.49 km 2) state-owned park in the Ozarks, in Delaware County, Oklahoma. It lies along U.S. Highway 412, near the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line. [a] The property was privately-owned and known as Dripping Springs until 1990, when the state bought it. The previous owners had also used the property as an ...
Arbuckle Springs WMA [5] Johnston: 3,869 acres (1,566 ha) 1 mile west of Bromide in northeastern part of county Arcadia Conservation Education Area (CEA) [6] [7] Oklahoma: East of I-35, north of I-44 and on the east side of Lake Arcadia in Edmond: Managed by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation for public and school education. [8]
The park originated in the 1930s and was named for its springs. [4] It was constructed as a park from the natural environment by the Civilian Conservation Corps. [5] The park received its current name because its sandy-bottom springs appear to be boiling because of the inrush of subsurface water.