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News

March 9th, 2009 Roger Norbeck, Bella Vista, Arkansas, joined the Foundation as a member of the Board of Directors March 2, 2010 The City Council of Grove, OK approved a Memorandum of Understanding partnering with the Foundation to prepare a Watershed Improvement Plan for the Grove community.
January 14th, 2010: Founation meets with Oklahoma Congressman Dan Boren about strategic issues facing the Grand Lake Watershed and the need for a four-state collective effort to reduce risks to water quality.
December 13, 2009: Kansas Water Office has received $863,000 from EPA Region 7, Kansas City, for the purpose of completing a stream erosion project on about a 8.3 mile reach on the Neosho River. Kansas is contributing $300,000 for this $1.3 million project.
November 10th, 2009: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and Kansas Water Office announced at the Executive Conference ...read more

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Grand Lake Watershed

Grand Lake Watershed Boundaries [Grand Lake Watershed Boundaries: City and lake geography added by the Grand Lake Watershed Alliance Foundation]

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This map shows the entire 10,298 square mile Grand Lake Watershed. All of the watershed drains into Grand Lake O’ The Cherokees located in northeast Oklahoma. The map shows in darker blue the Neosho River Subwatershed portion located in Kansas. Kansas by far has the largest area of the Grand Lake Watershed with about 57% of the total watershed.

The lighter blue section of the map shows the Spring River Watershed which accounts for about 25% of the total Grand Lake Watershed. The Spring River Watershed is in portions of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

The lighter red section of the map depicts the Elk River Watershed which accounts for about 10% of the total Grand Lake Watershed. The Elk River Watershed is in portions of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.

The yellow portion of the watershed accounts for about 8% of the total Grand Lake Watershed. It shows the Oklahoma portion of the Neosho River subwatershed. It also shows the areas of tributary streams that drain into Grand Lake O’ The Cherokees such as Horse Creek, and Honey Creek. The yellow portion excludes the Spring River Watershed that is in Oklahoma and the yellow also excludes the Elk River Watershed located in Oklahoma.