Travel to U.S.: Oklahoma: Oklahoma City: Water, Rail, Road: Photo 14
The growing city soon needed more water and contracted with the Corps of Engineers to take water from the upstream Fort Supply Reservoir. That, too, was insufficient, and in the 1940s a canal was built to divert water from Lake Overholser north into the watershed of the Cimarron, where another reservoir could be built on Bluff Creek. The federal government helped pay for it, on the grounds of flood control.
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