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A boathouse (or a boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports or leisure use. [1] These are typically located on open water, such as on a river. Often the boats stored are rowing boats. Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.
The earthen structure is 68 feet (21 m) high and 15,140 feet (4,610 m) long at its crest, with a maximum storage capacity of 383,000 acre-feet. The lake has a shoreline of 45 miles (72 km). [3] Canton is owned and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers but Oklahoma City retains the storage rights. [4]
Edmond is located just north of Oklahoma City in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 87.9 square miles (228 km 2 ), of which 85.1 square miles (220 km 2 ) is land and 2.8 square miles (7.3 km 2 ) or 3.19% is water.
The lake is located northeast of Oklahoma City in eastern Edmond, just east of Interstate 35. The lake has a surface area of 1,820 acres (7 km²) and has about 26 miles (42 km) of shoreline. The lake was created in 1984 by an earthen dam on the Deep Fork River begun in 1980 (45 years ago) ( 1980 ) .
The development of the Boathouse District began with the early 1990s revitalization of the seven-mile section of the North Canadian River that runs through Oklahoma City. . As rowing gained popularity in Oklahoma City on Lake Overholser, Mike and Tempe Knopp, leaders of the Oklahoma Association for Rowing, discovered that the Oklahoma River would be a perfect waterway for rowi
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