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 [...]
With over 70,000 surface acres of water under its control, including Oklahoma’s premier water destination – Grand Lake – the Grand River Dam Authority has a lot going on during the summer boating and recreation season. Promoting life jacket safety, enforcing lake rules and regulations, assisting the public with lake related questions, conducting lake [...]
Langley – In an effort to complete a required, federal inspection of the Pensacola Dam roadway and bridge decking, the Grand River Dam Authority is announcing that the portion of Highway 28 that crosses the dam will be closed April 9 – 13, from 7 AM to 5:30 PM. The required inspection must take place every two years. “We [...]
For the past five years, the Grand River Dam Authority’s (GRDA) Ecosystems Management Department has hosted Rush for Brush workshops on Grand Lake and Lake Hudson. The workshops are a concentrated effort to improve the fish habitat in GRDA’s Grand and Hudson lakes. By enhancing the natural fish habitat with the artificial structures, or spider [...]
GROVE – City Council members Tuesday night appointed five members of the community to serve on a new watershed improvement task force. Appointed were David Adzigian, Steve Duff, Sam Grasso, Judith Read and Ed Trumbull. Each and every one of the appointees has longstanding ties to the area and represents interests ranging from community to [...]
At 01:30 PM on Tuesday, March 20: Grand Lake elevation was 744.20 feet. Daily target elevation for March 20 is 742 feet. At the direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, nine (9) floodgates were open at Pensacola Dam, discharging 21,894 cubic feet per second (cfs) of water. Six (6) units were online at the [...]
Because of the roughly 1,200 miles of high voltage electric transmission line rights-of-way it has running across Northeast Oklahoma, the Grand River Dam Authority has been able to lend a hand to a popular feathered friend. In 2009, GRDA partnered with Quail Forever to formally introduce the POWER (Private Owners Working for Ecosystem Restoration) program [...]
New security requirements, handed down by the federal government, prompted the Grand River Dam Authority to reconfigure the way the public can access the fishing area located below Robert S. Kerr Dam. Because it has been a very popular fishing area for many years, GRDA made every effort to spread the word about the access [...]
