Grand River Dam Authority Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 3:30 PM on Tuesday, October 8: • Grand Lake elevation was 745.33 feet. Daily target elevation for October 8 is 742 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, one (1) main spillway gate was open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 649 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • […]
Grand River Dam Authority Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 10 AM on Tuesday, October 8: • Grand Lake elevation was 745.45 feet. Daily target elevation for October 8 is 742 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) main spillway gates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 12,478 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • […]
Grand River Dam Authority Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 3 PM on Monday, October 7: • Grand Lake elevation was 745.79 feet. Daily target elevation for October 7 is 742 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) main spillway gates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 12,908 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • […]
Grand River Dam Authority Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 10:30 AM on Monday, October 7: • Grand Lake elevation was 745.71 feet. Daily target elevation for October 7 is 742 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) main spillway gates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 12,808 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • […]
GRDA Power For Progress Column October 1, 2019
Wrapping up the rodeo The Oklahoma men and women who maintain the power lines for our state’s publicly-owned electric utilities came together in Ponca City in late September (25th and 26th) for two days of competition and comradery. Most importantly though, they came together for the sake of safety education. The event was the 2019 […]
GRDA News Release: Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 10AM on Friday, September 27: • Grand Lake elevation was 745.36. Target elevation for September 27 is 742.21 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) main spillway gates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 12,689 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • Six (6) units […]
GRDA News Release: Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 10:30AM on Thursday, September 26: • Grand Lake elevation was 746 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) main spillway gates and one (1) east gate were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 22,188 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • Six (6) units were online […]
GRDA News Release: Floodwater Release Bulletin
At 1:30 PM on Wednesday, September 25: • Grand Lake elevation was 745.65 feet. Daily target elevation for Sept. 25 is 742.36 feet. • At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, two (2) main spillway gates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 13,067 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. • […]
GRDA Power For Progress Column September 23, 2019
The benefits of public power … When municipalities from all across the state of Oklahoma came together last week for a conference in Tulsa, the Grand River Dam Authority was there to join them. The event was actually the Oklahoma Municipal League (OML) Annual Conference, a gathering of Oklahoma city and town officials and others […]
GRDA Power For Progress Column September 16, 2019
Department Spotlight: GRDA Metering Department Like all other large electric utilities, the Grand River Dam Authority is sending a large amount of electricity across its high-voltage lines round-the-clock. That electricity flows from the source of production – a GRDA generation facility – to customers all across the system. Those customer use it to power homes, […]