bottomcoon Loc: Tahlequah, oklahoma

I have heard of California's water problems for years. We have plenty of water & that too is a problem. Texas has been trying to get our water through the courts. Eastern Oklahoma has a lot of hydro electric dams & huge overland power lines that can send electricity from here to your laptop through a grid system. Fort Gibson lake has been drawn down before because somebody somewhere needs electricity. About 6 or 7 years ago the Corps of Engineers let thousands of stripers & other fish die below the fort Gibson dam because they drew the lake down very low & couldn't release enough water into the river to keep the fish alive. The Corps got their ass sued & now must release so many cubic feet of water into the river daily. The Arkansas River has several dams on it but the water must be kept at a high level because of the barge traffic that goes from the Mississippi River to Tulsa, Ok. Every dam on the Arkansas produces electricity & the generators are tied into the national grid system. The next time you turn a light on remember the electricity may have come from here. Tight lines.