Double Creek Retention Reservoir

Photograph of Double Creek Site 5 detention reservoir. See also OK 3-4. Construction completed 11-11-54
Date: 1955-01-XX
Creator: Brune, G. M.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Double Creek Spillway Entrance

Photograph of view looking northwest across spillway entrance, show water pool elevation.
Date: 1955-04-XX
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Double Creek Watershed Tree Removal

Photograph of D-7 tractor with dozer piling timber to be burned.
Date: 1955-07-XX
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Double Creek sub-watershed, Site # 1, Caney River Watershed. Forms for upper part of the front anti-seep collar. OK-169-7.
Date: September 28, 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Caney River Watershed, Site # 6, looking northeast from the station, 11+00 along C/L [center line] of dam. OK-203-7.
Date: December 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of wet core trench being excavated with a 3/4 cubic yard dragline and loaded into scrapers to be disposed of Station 10+50 C/L (center line) of dam
Date: September 14, 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Double Creek sub-watershed, Site # 6. Silt stone being excavated from the spillway for placement in the embankment. Station 7+00 and 50 feet left C/L (center line) of spillway. OK-169-11.
Date: October 18, 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of wet core trench being excavated with a 3/4 cubic yard dragline and loaded into scrapers to be disposed of Station 10+50 C/L (center line) of dam
Date: September 14, 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Double Creek sub-watershed, Site # 6. Ripping hard clay in the spillway at station 1+00. OK-169-12.
Date: October 18, 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of lower end of concrete pipe. OK-169-6.
Date: September 28, 1955
Creator: Cornforth, Kenneth
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Farming Equipment and Methods

Photograph of a one hundred acre field that has been drained, leveled and summer fallowed and will be planted in alfalfa in the fall of 1955. OK-39-10.
Date: May 18, 1955
Creator: McConnell, John
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History