Lake Hefner at record low water levels, when will city buy Canton water?

[PhiAlpha]

I get a kick out of it too. We had sailboats for years that stayed on the water. Mostly in a slip a couple spaces from the golf course pump house. There were a few times that we couldn't get our boat out. Once I could walk all the way across where the center row of slips ends on land. But even then a lot of the NE third of the lake was 60 feet deep. And a lot more 30 to
40 feet. There's a lot of water in Hefner when there's dry dirt on the south end.

I bet you were right near my slip! I was three slips down from the pump house (as you walk closer to the main body of the lake). Same here. I only pulled it once when I planned to work on it that winter and the water was getting low at the ramp (still plenty of water in the lake at that point just not enough to pull a boat out of it got lower).

[Bill Robertson]

I bet you were right near my slip! I was three slips down from the pump house (as you walk closer to the main body of the lake). Same here. I only pulled it once when I planned to work on it that winter and the water was getting low at the ramp (still plenty of water in the lake at that point just not enough to pull a boat out of it got lower).

I was two the other way. If you went through the gate and walked straight you would be on my boat.

[Bill Robertson]

I find it funny when the boats at the slips near the restaurants start touching the bottom. That's a sign you don't use your boat enough if you don't notice the water depth get lower and lower.

Some of those boats have limited choices. The smaller ones can of course be pulled out. Many of the larger ones don't have trailers and have to be pulled out by the crane and put on a rented trailer. Then there's no where to park it because they don't have a trailer space rented.
In the municipal slips boats can be hung from the dock by running big tie down straps under the boat and around the dock. Done that a few times. actually repainted the hull of one boat when the water was down for awhile.

[Urbanized]

Only about a foot below full pool now. With today’s rain I’d expect Hefner to be 100% topped off by early next week, if not this weekend.

[Bill Robertson]

Only about a foot below full pool now. With today’s rain I’d expect Hefner to be 100% topped off by early next week, if not this weekend.

Yeah. I went by the canal on the way to dinner and it's flowing pretty well. The extra rain will make that continue.

[Urbanized]

Less than a foot to go, as of this morning.

[Urbanized]

Officially full; in fact .15’ over full pool. I suppose we’ll have to wait for another time to gripe about “water mismanagement.” Sorry to disappoint.