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 [...]
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 [...]
In an effort to help prevent an outbreak of harmful blue-green algae in local waters, the Grand Lake Watershed Alliance Foundation has launched a campaign urging area residents to use phosphorous-free fertilizer on their lawns this year. Carl Metcalf, one of the founders of the Alliance, says phosphorous is “the enemy of water quality and [...]
Outside of the facility doors though, there are plenty of other visitors who have very little interest in how a coal fired plant works, yet they still spend a lot of time on the plant site. In fact, for 30 years now, feathered friends have flown in from all over the region to take advantage [...]
Since it first hit the tracks in the fall of 2008, the Grand River Dam Authority’s “Electric Express” has rolled into several classrooms across Northeast Oklahoma. Electric Express is the name of the GRDA program designed to teach elementary students about the basics of electricity, including how it is made, how it is transmitted and, [...]
