Grand River Dam Authority

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Grand River Dam Authority Flood Control and
Energy Production
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Grand River Dam Authority Flood Control and
Energy Production

• Grand Lake
• 112,000 kilowatt capability
• 755 elevation
• 525,000 acre feet of
• flood storage
• 745 elevation
• 585,000 acre feet of hydroelectric power storage
• Total drainage
• 10,298 square miles

Pensacola Dam Langley, Oklahoma
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Grand River Dam Authority Flood Control and
Energy Production

• Lake Hudson
• 114,000 kilowatt capability
• 636 elevation
• 244,210 acre feet of
• flood storage
• 619 elevation
• 151,670 acre feet of hydroelectric power storage
• Total drainage
• 1,275 square miles

Robert S. Kerr Dam Locust Grove, Oklahoma
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Grand River Dam Authority Flood Control and
Energy Production

• Salina Pumped Storage Project
• 266,000 kilowatt capability
• No flood control storage

Salina Pumped Storage Project Salina, Oklahoma
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Grand River Dam Authority Coal-Fired
Complex Energy Production

• Units 1 2 combined thermal generation
• 1,010,000 kilowatts

GRDA Coal-Fired Complex Chouteau, Oklahoma
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Grand River Dam Authority Annual Energy
Production
Hydroelectric
Thermal Generation

• 85 thermal generation
• 15 hydroelectric

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Black-start Capability Grand Lake (Pensacola Dam)

• Station service (hydroelectric)
• 500 kilowatts
• Energy interconnects
• GRDA PSO OGE
• WFEC AECI

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GRDA Communications

• Microwave, telephone and data
• I-35 I-40 Kansas Arkansas Missouri
• 24-hour battery backup

• GRDA Energy Control Center (24/7 backup diesel
  generators)
• Two-way VHF mobile radio network

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GRDA Communications

• GRDA Lake Patrol
• UHF VHF law
• enforcement network

• Mayes County Sheriff and
• MESTA Ambulance
• Salina repeater

• Amateur radio storm spotters
• Joplin, Mo. Oklahoma City, Okla.
• Pryor repeater
• Keatonville repeater
• Ketchum repeater

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Grand River Dam Authority Flood Control and
Energy Production