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The 84-year-old Pensacola Dam generates electricity for Grand River Dam Authority customers. The power generation project currently is navigating its periodic licensing renewal with the Federal ...
The Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) is an agency of the state of Oklahoma [1] created to control, develop, and maintain the Grand River waterway. It was created by the Oklahoma state legislature in 1935, and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. GRDA was designed to be self-funding from the sales of electricity and water.
The Grand River Dam Authority began the current license renewal process with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2017. Officials hope to have a new license issued by May 2025.
The Pensacola Dam, also known as the Grand River Dam, is a multiple-arch buttress dam located between the towns of Disney and Langley on the Grand River in Mayes County, Oklahoma. The dam is operated by the Grand River Dam Authority and creates Grand Lake o' the Cherokees .
The Grand River is an alternate name for the lower section of the Neosho River, [1] a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. "Grand River" refers to the section of river below the confluence of the Neosho and Spring rivers in Ottawa County near Miami. It empties into the Arkansas northeast of Muskogee, just downstream from the confluence ...
Name Capacity in acre feet (normal pool) surface acres (normal pool) average depth water clarity Lake Texoma: 2,643,000: 88,000 acres (35,612 ha) 30 feet (9.1 m)
In September 2014, the Grand River Dam Authority paid $925,000 to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit and a wrongful termination lawsuit filed against Sullivan and the agency. Later that year Sullivans annual salary was raised to $270,000. [3] In 2019, Sullivan's pay was raised to $330,000. [4]
The dam removal project sought to revitalize salmon and steelhead fish populations in the area by returning “free-flowing condition[s]” to the Klamath River, a change local native tribes had ...