(Above) Altus Dam and Reservoir, in Oklahoma.

5316 Highway 290 West, Suite 510
Austin, TX 78735-8931
Phone: (512) 899-4150
Fax: (512) 899-4179

Area Manager:
Larry Walkoviak

The Oklahoma-Texas Area Office (OTAO) is located in Austin, Texas, with a field office in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Oklahoma:

The Reclamation program in Oklahoma emphasizes municipal and industrial water supply. There are six projects with seven major reservoirs in the state, five of them constructed primarily to provide water to cities and towns. They are the Norman, Washita Basin (Foss and Ft. Cobb reservoirs), Arbuckle, Mountain Park and McGee Creek projects. In addition to providing city water, the W.C. Austin Project in 1990 served more than 39,000 acres of farmland which produced about $23 million worth of crops. The principal crop is cotton.

The Oklahoma projects provided 43,500 acre-feet of water in 1990 to 18 cities with a population totaling about 309,000. State parks are operated at all of the reservoirs, except Lake of the Arbuckles which is surrounded by the Chickasaw National Recreation Area administered by the National Park Service. Over 5.4 million people visited Reclamation projects in the state in 1994.

Texas:

The Great Plains Region is responsible for Reclamation activities in all of Texas except for the Pecos River Basin in the western part of the State. Much of the program emphasis is on municipal and industrial water, although there is some Reclamation irrigation at the San Angelo Project. Reclamation's projects provide water for over one million people in the state, provide flood protection, and are popular recreation sites with over one million visitors. The Nueces River and Palmetto Bend Projects provide municipal and industrial water in the Coastal Bend and Coastal Plains area of the state. The San Angelo Project provides for the integrated operation of Twin Buttes Reservoir with Lake Nasworthy to meet the municipal water requirements of the city of San Angelo. The project also delivers water to irrigate farmland in the Concho River Valley in addition to providing fish, wildlife, recreation and flood control benefits. Marshall Ford (Mansfield) Dam and Reservoir constitute the Colorado River Project which provides for flood control, storage for M&I;, irrigation, recreation, stream flow regulation, and power generation. Built by Reclamation, it is one of six dams and powerplants operated by the Lower Colorado River Authority, a public agency of the State of Texas.