Lake Atoka Reservoir

Lake Atoka Reservoir (also called Atoka Lake) is a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Atoka, Oklahoma, county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma. It was built in 1959 to expand the water supply for Lake Stanley Draper in Oklahoma City and Atoka.^[2]

Lake Atoka Reservoir
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Location	Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States
Coordinates	34°27′07″N 96°05′26″W
Type	reservoir
Basin countries	United States
Max. length	9.3 mi (15 km)
Surface area	5,700 acres (2,300 ha)
Average depth	85 ft (26 m)
Water volume	105,195 acre⋅ft (0.129756 km3)
Shore length1	43 mi (70 km)
Surface elevation	590 ft (180 m)[1]
Settlements	Atoka, Oklahoma
1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Description

The lake has a surface area of 5,700 acres (23,000,000 m²),^[3] an average depth of 26 meters (26 m), 70 miles (110 km) of shoreline and a capacity of 105,195 acre-feet (129,756,000 m³).^[4] Its length is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi).^[a]

Litigation over water rights

Atoka Lake is mentioned along with Sardis Lake, the Kiamichi Basin and the Clear Boggy Basin in a current court case (now known as Chickasaw v. Fallin), alleging that the state has violated the water rights of specific Native American tribes. The case was filed in 2011, and seeks to prevent of limit withdrawals of water from the named sources by the city of Oklahoma City and approved by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.^[6]

Notes

1. LASR states that the shoreline is 60 miles (97 km) long.^[5]