Lake Texoma Flood Pictures

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The Lake hasn't been this high since 1990. The building under water is a restaurant, which used to have the story of 1990 on the back cover of the menu.

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http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v295/magnethead/texomaflood/

http://www.kxii.com/weather/headlines/8237857.html
 
That would be what used to be our driveway.....It's now a water causeway that's eroded to the point of exposing a foot of telephone cable.
 
And Oh By The Way (there's always an oh by the way)

It's suppoed to crest at 636 feet on the 5th......thats 5 more feet from when the pictures were taken (~631.54 feet)
 
Hook onto the back side of denison dam with a pipe roughly 15 feet diameter and you might get some flow here in a few days.
 
well 6 more feet.....I hope that power pole in the pictures is cut off....cuz it was 3 feet from having an underwater electric meter.
 
just made channel 5 NBC news- many local lakes have closed boat ramps, and they said texoma will be over the spillway here in the next few days
 
the restaurant is now completely underwater...remember, it's now at 638.81 as i look, and the pictures are from 631. So the entire restaurant has to be done and overwith. It'll take at least 4 months just to drain to regular levels, before they can even start tearing it down to start rebuilding.
 
Well the lake finally made the dallas news- but they completely ignored the dam and showed a few campgrounds.

Now, there's 2 major problems with texoma right now:

1. they showed some oil rigs that are out in the middle of the lake.....there appear to be oil rings forming around the rigs (which aren't normally there).

2. They can only release water so fast- there are cities and communities literally river frong downstream from the dam.

Gate Changes:

* Thursday, 05 Jul 07 at 8:37 a.m.
o Pool Elevation = 639.21 feet.
o New Gate Discharge was 15028 cubic feet per second.
o New Gate Settings:
+ 4 Conduit Gates open 6.60 FEET
* Wednesday, 04 Jul 07 at 8:07 a.m.
o Pool Elevation = 638.16 feet.
o New Gate Discharge was 7803 cubic feet per second.
o New Gate Settings:
+ 4 Conduit Gates open 3.40 FEET

* Pool elevation is 639.57 feet on Thursday 05Jul07 Time: 2300 hours.
* At this elevation the total amount of water stored in Lake Texoma, Denison Dam is 5000981 acre-feet.
* Reservoir release is 17150 cubic feet per second on Thursday 05Jul07 Time: 0500 hours.
* Flood control pool is 92.35% full.
* Flood control pool storage filled is 2332386 acre-feet which is equivalent to 1.29 inches of runoff over the entire drainage basin.
* Flood control pool storage empty is 193182 acre-feet which is equivalent to 0.11 inches of runoff over the entire drainage basin.

http://www.swt-wc.usace.army.mil/DENI.lakepage.html

1 acre-foot = 43 560 cubic feet = 325,851.427 US gallons
1 cubic foot = 7.48051945 US gallons

according to the paper, the lake went 4.5 feet over the spillway in 1990.

so if my math is correct, it says that there are 2332386 acre-feet of water in the flood pool. It says that on average about 16000 cubic feet of water is released per second.

101 598 734 160 cubic feet divided by 16,000 CFPS = 73.5 days to drain back to normal level. That's september 19th.
 
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