Great Salt Plains Lake is dying

[white92coupe]

Why won't the ODWC restock it? That's terrible news to hear about all of the die off around.

 

[Deer Slayer]

ODWC will not restock because the lake has sanded in til it is 2 feet deep. It is a waste of fish. The lake bottom is literally drying up. I predict the lake will be bone dry by September 10 at the present rate of evaporation if not before.

 

[JCW355]

Sad to hear this

 

[OUPE]

Very sad to hear. This will hurt the waterfowl hunting in the area if there is no major rain in the future.

 

[Deer Slayer]

yOUR RIGHT. Pray for rain.

 

[EFsDad]

This too shall pass. If you think about it. That's why it is the great salt plains, because an inland salt water sea dried up right in that very spot.
Dad fished it as a kid and so did I. To bad the little guy to the left might never get that chance.

 

[Deer Slayer]

Neither will my grandson

 

[adluginb]

I grew up real close to the Salt Plains. Pics from today when I was there.
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Drove along the lake road and you can see birds standing out in water in middle of lake. I doubt the whole lake is more than 3-4" deep. Buzzards everywhere eating fish.

Yes I believe the whole lake will be dry in another month.

 

[headhunter]

That is sad.

 

[dennishoddy]

Not only Salt plains has died, but the fish in the Chikaskia River will soon die. The river, west, and south of Blackwell, has ceased to flow. Fish trapped in pools will soon die.


"Skiles said that on June 27 the Chikaskia River stopped flowing over the Diversion Dam, which is the only dam that Blackwell draws water from.



The Braman Dam is washed out and the gates of the Blackwell Dam do not work.



"This is only the third time in history that the river has stopped flowing over the Diversion Dam," Skiles said.



The other occurrences were in 1954 and 1980. "

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