Vinita – The Grand River Dam Authority is announcing the promotion of two employees to senior management positions. GRDA Chief Executive Officer/Director of Investments Dan Sullivan made the announcement during the monthly board meeting on Wednesday, May 9. Sullivan announced that Dr. Darrell Townsend, who has served as GRDA Ecosystems Management Director since 2004, has been [...]
Vinita – While the Grand River Dam Authority is moving ahead with plans to purchase a Tulsa office building, the organization has no plans to leave Pryor, says GRDA Chief Executive Officer Dan Sullivan. “In fact, we have plans to make a future investment in the Pryor community with the construction of a new Transmission Headquarters, adjacent [...]
Langley – It is only fitting that the windows of the Grand River Dam Authority’s Water Quality Laboratory open up to views of Grand Lake. After all, the lab exists because of those waters. Located on the lower level of the GRDA Ecosystems and Education Center in Langley, the lab is a key tool for [...]
At 3PM on Wednesday, May 2: Grand Lake elevation was 745.43 feet. Daily target elevation for May 2 is 742.07 feet. At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, nine (9) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 27,388 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. Six (6) units were online at [...]
Langley – Preserving and protecting the Grand River watershed is a responsibility that stretches across many agencies, concerns, and even states. In fact, while the river itself begins and ends inside Oklahoma’s borders, large portions of the watershed rest in Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. That is why it is so important to have experts from across [...]
Of course, Pensacola is just one part of GRDA’s hydroelectric history. The Authority also built Robert S. Kerr Dam in the early 1960s and the Salina Pumped Storage Project (SPSP) in the late 1960s/early 1970s. All together, these resources play a role in meeting the electrical demand of thousands of Oklahomans all across the state, [...]
Vinita – Organizational changes at the Grand River Dam Authority, announced during Wednesday’s board of directors meeting, will better align the utility’s structure to meet new needs and areas of compliance. GRDA Chief Executive Officer/Director of Investments Dan Sullivan announced the changes, which will include moving Chief Technical Officer Tim Brown to the Chief Operations Officer [...]
Mrs. Francis Hope (Kerr) Holway was the wife of William Rea (W.R.) Holway, longtime consulting engineer for the Grand River Dam Authority. Mr. Holway, a 1916 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was the lead engineer on the construction of GRDA’s Pensacola Dam, 1938 – 1940. When that massive construction project — which [...]
Power for Progress… A weekly column from the Grand River Dam Authority Gathering data, sharing data with other resource agencies, and utilizing that data to address water quality issues in the Grand River system … Since its inception in 2004, those have all been top priorities of the Grand River Dam Authority Ecosystems Management Department. [...]
On the evening of Sunday, April 8, the Grand River Dam Authority secured a site south of Langley, Oklahoma, where possible prehistoric human remains were discovered earlier in the day by the property manager. Shortly after being notified of the findings, GRDA took control of the site which is on private property but lies within [...]
