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Draft proposal for low-water dams approved

The Tulsa City Council’s Arkansas River Infrastructure Task Force this morning agreed on a $298 million proposal to build and/or overhaul four low-water dams in the Arkansas River.

The dams would be built and/or renovated in Sand Springs, Tulsa (Zink Dam), Jenks and Bixby.

Draft proposal for low-water dams approved

The Tulsa City Council’s Arkansas River Infrastructure Task Force this morning agreed on a $298 million proposal to build and/or overhaul four low-water dams in the Arkansas River.

The dams would be built and/or renovated in Sand Springs, Tulsa (Zink Dam), Jenks and Bixby.

Hyperlocal: What about Tulsa’s levees?

I know there is absolutely nothing sexy about levees, those earthen embankments with “toe drains” and “pump stations” in them. But I also know that the Tulsa area’s 21-mile levee system protects hundreds of thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars of property, and that it’s broken.