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Denison Dam, also known as Lake Texoma Dam, is a dam located on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma that impounds Lake Texoma. The purpose of the dam is flood control, water supply, hydroelectric power production, river regulation, navigation and recreation. [ 3 ]
Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th-largest US Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District. [1] Lake Texoma is formed by Denison Dam on the Red River in Bryan County, Oklahoma, and Grayson County, Texas, about 726 miles (1,168 km) upstream from the mouth of the river.
Lake Dennison Recreation Area is a 121-acre (49 ha) Massachusetts state park located in the town of Winchendon.It comprises a small portion of the 4,221 acres (1,708 ha) of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Birch Hill Flood Control Project [3] that are managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and that also include Otter River State Forest.
Near Denison, the river exits the eastern end of Lake Texoma, a reservoir formed by the Denison Dam. (The lake is also fed by the Washita River from the north.) Beyond the dam it runs generally east towards Arkansas, receiving Oklahoma's Muddy Boggy Creek on the left bank before turning southward near Texarkana. [citation needed]
This route was transferred to FM 84 on October 26, 1943 when portions of SH 91 were submerged in the rising Lake Texoma. The current routing of SH 91 was originally built on May 18, 1944 as State Spur 151, connecting the newly completed Denison Dam along the Red River to the city of Denison. The route was renumbered on January 26, 1946 to State ...
Workers use three flood gates to release excess water, but once the lake reaches 992.6 inches, the dam overflows, the document says. At that point, the docks on the lake “are underwater and boat ...
The Lake Lure dam in western North Carolina overtopped Friday after Hurricane Helene inundated the area, forcing evacuations and prompting warnings from officials early Friday morning that the dam ...
The Lake Lure Dam, which was feared doomed to collapse on Friday, is stable and emergency repairs are set to begin. At the peak of Helene’s rains, a warning went out that the Lake Lure Dam was ...