Canton Lake may have a fish kill

[ripnbst]

Severely low! Up from a puddle.

Even with all this rain and mild heat we've been blessed with? What gives?

 

[vvvvvvv]

Even with all this rain and mild heat we've been blessed with? What gives?

Evaporation rates are a function of surface area.

Your area is having one of its wettest years. The areas that feed Canton are still below normal.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Even with all this rain and mild heat we've been blessed with? What gives?

Have you seen a map? Canton lake is not downstream of the significant rains the central and east side of the state has received. In addition cooler temperatures don't produce water, it just slows evaporation rates.

 

[Okie4570]

Several ponds are still dry where I hunt, and we've received almost 8" in the last 30 days, only between 9"-12" average per year for the last three years. Got a lot of making up to do still. On an normal year, Tulsa's rainfall is more than double what we get anyway.

 

[dennishoddy]

I'm going to get over to the farm this weekend to see if my dry hole has got any water in it for dove season.

 

[Okie4570]

Everything around you that I hunt is still dry

 

[dennishoddy]

Yeah, I looked at the mesonet today. The area has got 7" of rain in the last month, but no sustained rainfall more than 1/2" at a time and none of it runoff.

I've got to change fuel filters in the tractor tomorrow, and bleed the fuel system to get the water out. I'll drive by, and see what it looks like.

Got a gang on a disk to rebuild as well. Lots of night work coming up.

Went south of Tonkawa today to help a buddy put up camera's and get feeders started. Either side of I35, all ponds are totally dry and grown up in weeds.

 

[SoonerP226]

I hope I didn't disinter someone's grandpa when I dug up this thread, but it seems an apropos place for this. According to the tease they just ran in the morning show, Fox25 in OKC is supposed to run a story on the flood control project at Canton Lake tonight (Fri, 4/25). It's a "waste watch" story (they used lots of vague terminology, saying something about a "$100M hole in the ground" and how "it might not even be possible in Oklahoma"), but I figured it might be of interest to some of y'all.

 

[BadgeBunny]

I hope I didn't disinter someone's grandpa when I dug up this thread, but it seems an apropos place for this. According to the tease they just ran in the morning show, Fox25 in OKC is supposed to run a story on the flood control project at Canton Lake tonight (Fri, 4/25). It's a "waste watch" story (they used lots of vague terminology, saying something about a "$100M hole in the ground" and how "it might not even be possible in Oklahoma"), but I figured it might be of interest to some of y'all.

Thanks for the head's up ...

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[Shadowrider]

Here's the teaser:

CANTON -
We’ve all heard of preparing for a rainy day, but one federally-funded project is taking that concept to the extreme. It is a massive construction project happening at Canton Lake that has already cost you $100 million and will likely cost nearly that much to finish.

Construction on the auxiliary spillway at Canton Lake started a decade ago. It is designed to divert water in the case of a flood, but these days the people who live and work in Canton say a flood is what is needed.

“Never seen it this far, this low, this long,” remarked Alan Cox inside his Overlook Café next to the Canton Dam. The lake’s low levels have meant lost business at the Overlook as well as many other businesses nearby.

“I grew up on it fishing on it [Canton Lake] and I wanted, I thought you could make a change in things and make a better place for people and it's kind of went to nothing now,” Cox said.

It's not just the drought that's caused problems. Tonight on the FOX 25 Primetime News at Nine, why this project will continue, while costing tax payers more money to get it done.

http://www.okcfox.com/story/2531366...iticized-as-misspending-by-federal-government