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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 ...
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 ...
The town received $4 million for repairs to its wastewater treatment plant, which is located on Devine Water Way near the Hot Springs Resort.
[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]
The board approved funding a new overflow meter at the wastewater treatment plant. The town was also awarded $4 million to build a new plant by 2026. Hot Springs approves wastewater treatment ...
The Lone Chimney water treatment plant, closed several years ago, has not been restarted. That plant used a chloramine treatment process , whereas the Stillwater plant uses a chlorination process. The water treatment board must decide whether to convert the existing plant to achlorination, or to treat Stillwater's product to remove something ...
The Oklahoma Plan for Tar Creek has listed four main objectives in the process: improving surface water quality, reducing exposure to lead dust, attenuating mine hazards, and land reclamation. [8] The University of Oklahoma's Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science has implemented a 1.2 million dollar passive water treatment ...
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). The reservation officially opened to the public April 29, 1904. [7]