I was around Canton Lake in the early 70's. It was so low that we would drive our cars down the boat loading ramps and drive out onto the lake bed. (Until we got chased off). LoL. The stream of water going thru the spillway was a strip of water only about 20' wide and that was it. The lake was useless for swimming, fishing and boating. The local economy suffered. It was horrible.
I want to load up all the stinking dead fish and dump em on the water utility board members green lawns this summer. Might as well fertilize for the stupid bastards!
OKC owns the water rights to the lake. The USACOE, the Canton Lake Assoc, and the Cheyenne/Arapaho tribes have been involved in the recent discussions with OKC. They promised to wait 2 - 4 weeks to allow possible Spring rains to help fill the lake before they took the water. They waited less than 1 week. If enough people call and complain to the Water Utilities Trust about their actions they will give excuses why they did what they did. They are like cockroaches when you turn the light on.......they run and hide. Their actions speak for themselves.
Didn't canton already have a fish shock recently? I have a buddy in the area who said they shocked it because the lake couldn't support the fish population so they thinned them out.
I grew up out in Guymon and watched all the creeks, river beds, and even lake Optima go dry. You can drive over a lot of bridges in that part of the country that have no water under them anymore. Scary stuff.
Negative, last year the drum (fish species) suffered a fish kill by nature.
Bassin is correct. Some drum died last year at Canton but not due to a lack of oxygen.
FYI, News9 just ran a piece on Canton Lake.
What did they say?
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