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Tulsa Co. & Low Water Dams


Rusty

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Has anyone else been keeping tabs on this? What started out as one low water dam above the Zink Dam, has now turned into who all else can have one. I am afraid that the fishing will be ruined if this proposal passes. You can surely say good bye to the striper/hybrid/whites.

http://tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?ar..._A19_spanc21171

Here is another article with some additional stories.

http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=131870

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Years ago there was a low water dam near Sand Springs, upstream from Tulsa. Eventually the cities demolished the dam because so many people drowned below the spillway, especially after Lake Keystone was built upstreaam and sudden water level changes became possible.

James Inhoff was mayor when the city planners suggested building a low water dam at 31st street on Riverside. I was the one who suggested they needed to add a James Inhoff Memorial Cemetary for the people who would drown below that dam. They did not take my advice, but by now ten or twelve people have drowned.

I guess Bixby can't stand to be a small town without a deathtrap of its own. Makes you wonder at the price of development sometimes.

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Thats interesting. Three weeks ago wasn't there a family of two or three kids that drowned below Zink dam? The city is sure pushing for this to go through, but from what people are writing in the forums, only a few are for the tax increase.

I have been in contact with ODWC via emails regarding there involvement in this matter, and I am waiting on some information they are using during the meetings. Hopefully, they will send it.

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Rusty,that sounds like bad news for fishermen,maybe it won't pass.Just curious as to where the 100 mil in private donations came from?

From the pictures I seen on TV a couple of weeks ago it seems Miami needs a Dam or some kind of burm or levee.That was alot of water,has it went down all the way yet?

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Clean up is underway.

The issue could be solved if GRDA and the COE had at least one intelligent brain in the bunch. GRDA blames the COE and the COE blames the GRDA. It's a oneway street for sure.

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Not sure I understand the complaint here. Look at a map of the Neosho river sometime. There is a dam in nearly every town. I haven't noticed that they are death traps and it doesn't appear to have ruined the fishing. ??

I would rather be fishin'.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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Not sure I understand the complaint here. Look at a map of the Neosho river sometime. There is a dam in nearly every town. I haven't noticed that they are death traps and it doesn't appear to have ruined the fishing. ??

You are right in that there are LOW water dams in nearly every town. Miami's low water dam is just that. Don't need a map, I can look at it when the water level is well below normal. With that being said, I haven't seen the dam in a very long time. Which is not impeding any fish to move up or down stream. This river has some of the best crappie, whites, and hybrid fishing around.

The reason Tulsa is wanting to dam the area is to create a lake or several. An email that I received from ODWC stated that the main fish located in the Zink Lake are rough fish. Carp, buffalo and shad. Below Zink Lake you have the striped, whites, hybrids, crappie and so on. If they install the "low water dams", these species will no longer be able to make runs to the Zink dam, which is downtown Tulsa. The Tulsa mayor has stated they want to create a lake, which it is my understanding they will not be low water dams.

In regards to the drownings/death traps, poor judgments on the part people. Sad, yes. Accidents do happen.

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