Lower water levels create few opportunities for recreation on the river, but the dam is vital for safety. “Flood control, we want Keystone,” Paul Zachary, Tulsa City Engineer said.

The Keystone is managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District, and is one of a handful of dams that manage the Arkansas River as it winds from tributaries in Colorado, down through Kansas ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers increased the release from Keystone Dam Sunday afternoon. The release was increased to 75,000 cubic feet per second around noon and was bumped up again to 85,000 ...

“We people along the Arkansas River, people along the other rivers controlled by the Corps in this country, want you pulling the pools down,” John B. DesBarres, a lawyer whose home was flooded ...

The Arkansas River level at the Tulsa gauge has dropped to 21.5 feet overnight as the release from the Keystone Dam began to fall to 245,000 cubic feet per second Thursday morning.

“We have a long, long way to go before the Arkansas River and Keystone are back to normal,” the post said. The swelling Arkansas River had posed a threat to Tulsa’s levees.

As of Thursday, the lake was 32 feet above normal and the flood-control pool was 108.24% full, but more water was flowing out of the lake than entering via the Arkansas River.

And in nearby Tulsa, more than 1.2 million people are being warned that water released from nearby Keystone Dam could threaten levees built in the 1940s.

The Arkansas River, swollen from water released upriver in Oklahoma, is expected to crest Wednesday near Fort Smith, Arkansas, at 41 feet, well above the previous record of 38.1 feet.

By Don Bishop May 27, 2019 at 4:56 am CDT Expand Keystone Dam water release increases to 275,000 c.p.s. Monday By Don Bishop May 27, 2019 at 4:56 am CDT ...

TULSA, Okla. – Flooding is at an emergency level in Tulsa. The Army Corps of Engineers is increasing the water release from the Keystone Dam. It is now releasing 250,000 cubic feet of water … ...