Foss Lake
| Foss Lake Foss Reservoir |
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 34 '0 " N , 99 ° 13' 43" W | ||||||||
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| Construction time: | 1958-1961 | ||||||||
| Height above valley floor: | 43 m | ||||||||
| Crown length: | 5 530 m | ||||||||
| Crown width: | 12 m | ||||||||
| Operator: | Bureau of Reclamation | ||||||||
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| Altitude (at congestion destination ) | 500 m | ||||||||
| Water surface | 36 km² | ||||||||
| Reservoir length | 13 km | ||||||||
| Reservoir width | 5 km | ||||||||
| Storage space | 538.8 million m³ | ||||||||
The Foss Lake (officially Foss Reservoir ) is a reservoir in Custer County in the US state of Oklahoma . It is 15 miles west of Clinton and 6 miles north of Foss in Foss State Park .
The lake was created between 1958 and 1961 by the US Bureau of Reclamation as the Washita Basin Project on the Washita River to regulate the river and supply water to Bessie , Clinton , Cordell and Hobart . Because of the very hard and cloudy water, a plant-based electrodialysis system was built for the water supply .
With a capacity of 436,812 acre-feet and 3600 hectares of water, Foss Lake is the largest standing water in Western Oklahoma. The shore length is 101 km. The traffic jam occurs through a 5,530 m long dam with a height of 43 m and a width of 12 m.
When testing new sonar equipment in September 2013, members of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol located two wrecked cars at the bottom of the lake. When the two Chevrolets , a sedan from the early 1950s and a Camaro (built in 1969) were recovered, six human skeletons were found in them, which were linked to two unexplained missing persons from 1969 and 1970. In October 2014, it was announced that the skeletons had been identified as 6 people who had disappeared in the area.
The Washita National Wildlife Refuge is on the north bank .
Web links
- Foss Reservoir in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- fosslake.com