Foundations, etc. under Lake Hefner?

[rondvu]

My Great Grandfather homesteaded the area that is now Hefner Rd and Hefner Parkway. I have seen a pic of my Grandmother standing on the NE section of the rock dam wall. It was nothing but dirt, no visible signs of homes, trees, etc..... To me it look like earth movers had been in action. FYI Lake Hefner was at one time to be called Bluff Creek Reservoir.

Here is a site with Spring Creek Township.

http://www.olivehill.org/township.htm

[dhawkins]

Here are some pictures of the end of the mystery pipeline. It appears to be about 30" in diameter and extends 150 yards into the lake.
However there is a new mystery pipeline!
About 90 yards ESE of the end of that pipe there is another pipe that just pops up out of the lake bed. It appears to be about 12" in diameter.
There are also some smaller (2") pipes sticking up like they are attached to a storage tank under ground, and an unknown 4" pipe and some concrete chunks.
Have a few more pics if anyone is interested I will post them here.

[Joe Kimball]

NICE! You should totally email those shots to the appropriate city engineer and see what they say.

[bucktalk]

Here are some pictures of the end of the mystery pipeline. It appears to be about 30" in diameter and extends 150 yards into the lake.
However there is a new mystery pipeline!
About 90 yards ESE of the end of that pipe there is another pipe that just pops up out of the lake bed. It appears to be about 12" in diameter.
There are also some smaller (2") pipes sticking up like they are attached to a storage tank under ground, and an unknown 4" pipe and some concrete chunks.
Have a few more pics if anyone is interested I will post them here.

Is there some way we can discover what the pipes were/are for? Very interesting! Maybe even a local news station could do a report on this!!

[dhawkins]

I was out at lake Hefner last month and took some pictures of an old culvert/bridge that was exposed due to the low water level.
These pictures were taken east of stars and stripes park where Wilshire (Blvd?) would have been. The last picture is what the end looked like underwater (couldn't get a good picture of the real thing)


Don

[Joe Kimball]

I was out at lake Hefner last month and took some pictures of an old culvert/bridge that was exposed due to the low water level.
These pictures were taken east of stars and stripes park where Wilshire (Blvd?) would have been. The last picture is what the end looked like underwater (couldn't get a good picture of the real thing)


Don

That's fabulous! Thanks for taking such nice pics. The vertical pipes do sort of unnerve me, just as the CRT television, by now broken, that some unconsiderate jerk tossed off the dam and onto the riprap at Britton and W Lakeshore Drive.

I wonder if that's a culvert original to ante-Hefner Oklahoma County, or a subsequent development that was eventually overtaken?