We been flooded for 2 months. They opened I-29 south into Missouri last week, Still a section of 10 miles north of town is still under water. Missouri River is still out of its banks in places, the COE is still pulling water out of Gavin’s
Imagine fishing Tenkiller? We are the last ones treated. Waiting on Keystone, then Grand River chain, then hopefully us. Grand lake gets special treatment. You can bet they will keep the water low enough to have the Nichols Tournament on sunday
El Dorado Reservoir began releasing water downstream to Kaw to make some room for heavy rains predicted Saturday - Monday.
That may be true but can you tell me when last time you have seen Grand as high as they let Gibson get ?? NEVER !!
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Keystone:
Reservoir release is 161525 cubic feet per second on Tuesday 21May19 Time: 2000 hours.
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Gavin’s ( Yankton S,D. ) released as much as 150,000 cfm, flooding everyone for 200 miles in 1986, 1993, 2011 and 2019– and we are still being flooded.
Webbers Falls residents have been asked to evacuate the town as flooding from multiple storms runs down the Arkansas River.
The Arkansas River near Muskogee is expected to swell to 38 feet by Thursday, about 10 feet above the flood stage there. National Weather Service meteorologists report that the river should reach that level before dawn Thursday. For context, the 1986 flood reached just over 39 feet.
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In Little Rock, we’re downstream from the Oklahoma watershed. Arkansas River is running 300cfs now with no chance of letting up until after the upstream rivers/lakes have normalized for a couple of weeks. Anything above 100k shuts down boat/barge traffic. Around here it’s more economic than recreation.
Grand only has 11.6' of Flood Pool. Fort Gibson was designed with 28' of Flood Pool. As mentioned above, Grand could only reach 13.6' before it ran over the dam uncontrolled. Grand will store 2x what Gibson will with both full, so every foot means a lot more water than it appears.
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Gibson is at full pool ---Also navigation channel is rolling over the locks. these run into arkansas river along with Keystone. Looking real bad for folks down stream !!!! Muskogee. Ft Smith and all points on the river this is BAD !!! Our forecast all the way through at least next 2 weeks has rain chances everyday .
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The Mississippi River has to pass here to get to the Gulf...drains 2/3 of this continent. Everything is flooded west of me. They are afraid to open the Old River structure to stop the flooding due to losing the river to the Atchafalaya. The previous record for high river consecutive days was 225 days in 1973. The Corp says we will break that this year...easy. First time ever the Bonnet Carrie Spillway was opened twice in the same year to save New Orleans.
I seen on FB that the people around or in Webber Falls was ordered to Leave ASAP, the buildings in Downtown Bixby are sandbag and taped up.. It going to get ugly quick..
BREAKING: The Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is set to increase its release to 185,000 cubic feet of water per second from Keystone Dam starting at 10 this morning..
120,000 cfs from ft. Gibson, 165,000 cfs from Keystone=a hell of a lot of water!
storms today and tonight won’t help.
Webber’s falls evacuated.
Spring has sprung
UPDATE: The Corps now says it could release as much as 215,000 CFS from Keystone Lake by 2pm today.