Thread: Lakes In Danger Of Overflowing

Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper

Anyone else thing that the Corp dropped the ball?

Hey, they were sure we were in a permanent drought caused by global warming/climate change ..... its not their fault that reality came knocking.

I never thought they dropped the ball. Those guys at the corp are hard working guy's and I know when our water ways get in the terrible position they are in it really bothers those guy's and they do the best with what Mother Nature throws at them. I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT WANT THEIR JOB. With that being said my hats off to all the corp employees AND KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. WSD

Eufaula is dropping and this next weeks forecast looks like they may be able to make more progress. Kudos to the corps. Can't totally control Mother Nature but they've done a great job.

Yes they have done a great job , Mother Nature didn't cut them any slack over the last few weeks . I can tell you that due to some good decisions by the corps. Bixby was spared from a lot of flooding . Some folks took on some water from Snake creek but none due to the river . They are patiently sticking with a 30,000cfs output and now finally Keystone has stopped rising and will start to go down soon .

Originally Posted by oucrappie

Yes they have done a great job , Mother Nature didn't cut them any slack over the last few weeks . I can tell you that due to some good decisions by the corps. Bixby was spared from a lot of flooding . Some folks took on some water from Snake creek but none due to the river . They are patiently sticking with a 30,000cfs output and now finally Keystone has stopped rising and will start to go down soon .

When keystone goes down, Kaw will start releasing. That is how the flood control system works.

Eufaula has dropped 18 inches from its highest point looking at the bushes

Talked to a Ranger on Saturday at the Eufaula dam and she said they were going to be closing the gates some to allow 10killer to release. Sunday they lowered the gates 3 different times -- currently at 4.5'. No rain in the forecast so the level is still dropping, but much slower now. And I'm actually thankful for that since I can't be down there this week to monitor my dock. Luckily we were there all last week on vacation so I was able to do what needed to be done to keep our dock from hanging up on the pencils. We helped several other dock owners that we could. But many other docks in our area were going to need professional help from somebody with a barge.

I was there when texoma crested at almost 646. . . Flooded homeowners are now pleading for boats not to make wakes close to the shore because the waves are coming into their homes