dams

Two cities and a tribal government in Oklahoma have agreed to create a lake in the Arkansas River.

With extreme floods all over the world filling headlines, researchers at the University of Oklahoma predict things will only get worse.

Oklahoma's more than 2,000 small flood control dams are a vital piece of infrastructure most people don't notice.

Oklahoma has more than 4,700 dams. At least 30 percent of these flood control structures are at the end of their 50-year design life. With climate change…

Oil and gas are endangering the Oklahoma’s streams, soil and wetlands. Not by polluting them, but because plummeting oil prices have blown a…

This spring, Oklahoma faced a problem it hadn’t in a while: too much water. Much of that floodwater flowed into rivers and out of Oklahoma — and that’s…

More than 2,000 dams in Oklahoma have protected lives and property from flooding for decades. But age is catching up with them, and many need repairs. And…

Explore Oklahoma’s dams with StateImpact’s interactive map detailing their age, type, owner, hazard classification and reported failures.Oklahoma has the…

Oklahoma has nearly 5,000 dams, more than most other states. When they were built, they were classified based on the risk their failure would pose to…