[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 33, Volume 3]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 33CFR208.29]



[Page 133-134]

 

                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS

 

 CHAPTER II--CORPS OF ENGINEERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, DEPARTMENT OF 

                                 DEFENSE

 

PART 208_FLOOD CONTROL REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  208.29  Arbuckle Dam and Lake of the Arbuckles, Rock Creek, Okla.



    The Bureau of Reclamation, or its designated agent, shall operate 

the Arbuckle Dam and Lake of the Arbuckles in the interest of flood 

control as follows:

    (a) Flood control storage in Lake of the Arbuckles between elevation 

872 (top of conservation pool) and elevation 885.3 (top of flood control 

pool) initially amounts to 36,400 acre-feet. Whenever the lake level is 

within this elevation range the flood control discharge facilities shall 

be operated under the direction of the District Engineer, Corps of 

Engineers, Department of the Army, in charge of the locality, so as to 

reduce as much as practicable of the flood damage below the lake. In 

order to accomplish this purpose, flood control releases shall be 

limited to amounts, which when combined with local inflows below the dam 

will not produce flows in excess of bankfull on Rock Creek downstream of 

the lake and on the Washita River, from the confluence of Rock Creek to 

Durwood, Okla. Operating stages and corresponding flows are as follows: 

An 11-foot stage (15,000 c.f.s.) on the U.S.G.S. gage on Rock Creek near 

Dougherty, Okla., river mile 1; and a 20-foot stage (15,000 c.f.s.) on 

the U.S.G.S. gage on the Washita River near Durwood, Okla., river mile 

63.4.



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    (b) When the level in Lake of the Arbuckles exceeds elevation 885.3 

(top of flood control pool), releases shall be made at the maximum rate 

possible through the river outlet works and the uncontrolled spillway 

and continued until the lake level recedes to elevation 885.3 when 

releases shall be made to equal inflow or the maximum release 

permissible under paragraph (a) of this section, whichever is greater.

    (c) The representative of the Bureau of Reclamation or its 

designated agent in immediate charge of operation of the Arbuckle Dam 

shall furnish daily to the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, 

Department of the Army, in charge of the locality, a report, on forms 

provided by the District Engineer for this purpose, showing the lake 

elevation; the number of river outlet works gates in operation with 

their respective openings and releases; uncontrolled spillway release; 

municipal pumping rate; tailwater elevation; available evaporation data; 

and precipitation in inches. Normally, a reading at 8 a.m., noon, 4 

p.m., and midnight shall be shown for each day. Whenever the lake level 

rises to elevation 872 and releases for flood regulation are necessary 

or appear imminent, the representative of the Bureau of Reclamation or 

its designated agent, shall report at once to the District Engineer by 

telephone or telegraph and unless otherwise instructed shall report once 

daily thereafter in that manner until the lake level recedes to 

elevation 872. These latter reports shall reach the District Engineer by 

9 a.m. each day.

    (d) The regulations of this section, insofar as they govern use of 

flood control storage capacity above elevation 872, are subject to 

temporary modification in time of flood by the District Engineer if 

found desirable on the basis of conditions at the time. Such desired 

modifications shall be communicated to the representative of the Bureau 

of Reclamation and its designated agent in immediate charge of operation 

of the Arbuckle Dam by any available means of communication, and shall 

be confirmed in writing under date of the same day to the Regional 

Director in charge of the locality, and his designated agent, with a 

copy to the representative in charge of the Arbuckle Dam.

    (e) Flood control operation shall not restrict pumping necessary for 

municipal and industrial uses and releases necessary for downstream 

users.

    (f) Releases made in accordance with the regulations of this section 

are subject to the condition that releases shall not be made at rates or 

in a manner that would be inconsistent with emergency requirements for 

protecting the dam and lake from major damage or inconsistent with the 

safe routing of the inflow design flood (spillway design flood).

    (g) The discharge characteristics of the river outlet works (capable 

of discharging approximately 1,880 c.f.s. when the lake level is at 872) 

shall be maintained in accordance with the construction plans (Bureau of 

Reclamation Specifications No. 6099 as modified by the ``as built'' 

drawings).

    (h) All elevations stated in this section are at Arbuckle Dam and 

are referred to the datum in use at that location.



[33 FR 263, Jan. 9, 1968]