Keystone dam broken?

[Breadburner]

What's a Prattville? You mean South Sand Springs?

I've always heard they have good pizza.

Yup....West 41st and hwy 97.....west of 97 on the right after the lights....

[Vision 2025]

Guys...If your going to have Pizza do your-selfs a favor and go to Minute Man in Prattville......

My wife works nearby, that is pretty good pizza but I was thinking of a nearby downton pizza...

[Vision 2025]

I'll take you up on that. If I can help with a positive outlook and helpful insights I will. It has great potential and if handled well will be a springboard for more river use ventures. RPA can be a nurturing environment if they want to be. Pick a time or pm me, I suddenly have lots of time available.

PM sent

[custosnox]

Drove Down Riverside and saw more water and less sand, so I am taking it that the problem has been fixed.

[carltonplace]

Drove Down Riverside and saw more water and less sand, so I am taking it that the problem has been fixed.

I noticed that yesterday.

[custosnox]

I noticed that yesterday.

yeah, I noticed the night before, but kept forgetting to mention it.

[DolfanBob]

Drove Down Riverside and saw more water and less sand, so I am taking it that the problem has been fixed.

I said that to the Wife this morning as we were watching News on 6. Their sky cam showed the River and it looked pretty good water wise.

[Vision 2025]

Drove Down Riverside and saw more water and less sand, so I am taking it that the problem has been fixed.

Not "fixed" however River Park's repair contractor has set the gates (manually) in the up position so that the hydraulic lift cylinders could be removed for repair and reinstallation.  The lake is expected to remain full this month and into next.  This is good news on several fronts.  Short term = "been so long, I forgot what the lake looks like."  Long term =  there is water quality testing program scheduled to begin later this month... we are looking to sample for the worst likely conditions with HOT conditions and low flow, think we'll have that one covered (check).

[AquaMan]

Well, I plopped my little orange Pelican Burst kayak into the river around 5pm this evening over on the west bank. Actually, had to walk the little booger out about 50 ft to find deep enough water to float both the kayak and me. The water is warm and loaded with algae at this location. But I noted where the deeper channel is when the river was dry and managed to comfortably paddle all the way up to the 66 Bridge. Water is much cleaner and deeper up there.

It feels good to be on the water again. The heat was not a factor as it is much cooler on the water. The cloud formations were gorgeous and it soon began to rain. That made me laugh. The geese flew by in formation at a foot over the water honking like crazy. The least Terns were really active on the islands and making a lot of racket.

Bad news is the water is so warm and oxygen depleted that I didn't see any fish. Not even a turtle.

[Vision 2025]

Saw you paddling about on my way home, sounds like a good relief.  I need to toss my boat in and join you... remind me some evening in the fall!  

High water temp WOW, yesterday evening the water was 93F (highest we've seen) and that is taken mid water column at the bridge.  We still see a good spread with new water and mornings 87 F low yesterday (that delta is pretty common) but the range is going up each day so things are getting worse.  

Low DO, we are seeing low spikes but not sustained low readings (at least yet) that appear to correspond with the leading edge of new flow releases as they arrive especially following significant periods between releases.   Not all that surprising given the extreme conditions and you may have been in some of that 'challenged' water.

We have tried for a worst case for data collection and testing for the last 18 months, trying to match the 7Q2 flow (the EPA designated regulatory low flow condition which the stream permitting is based upon).  Last year we tried to simulate it when the temperatures were summer normal but between some of ODWC's activities and an unscheduled SWAPA (oops) release the next time the conditions were right it never came to be so now the sampling will be done in what appears to be beyond regulatory extreme conditions.

[AquaMan]

Looks to me like you found a pretty good "worst case scenario". Any species (including us) that makes it through this heat wave is truly Oklahoma Tough and likely to flourish when it cools off. Let me know if you need any help.