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II - Existing Facilities

2-01  Adverse effects of the Project upon the Town of Osage.  The approved 
guide contour for fee purchase within the Town is elevation 759.0 which is 
the standard project flood without freeboard.  Backwater from the 50-year 
flood occurring after 50 years sedimentation would attain elevation 758.0 
at Osage.  This backwater plus wave height of 1.8 feet and set-up of 0.1 
foot would indicate an elevation of 759.9 as the basis for relocation in 
accordance with condition (a), paragraph 5 of Design Memorandum No. 7.  
Since the established fee purchase line, as shown on the drawings, more 
nearly represents the effect upon improvements within the Town, the 
inventory of affected municipal facilities presented in Tables 2-1, 2-2 and 
2-3 is based upon the fee purchase line.  The Reservoir would inundate 
municipal streets, water lines, gas lines and the Town jail; approximately 
63 private residences; two churches, and 14 commercial buildings.  Pictures 
of streets, drainage structures and typical private improvements within the 
affected area are presented on Exhibits IV through XI.  The plan of 
affected municipal facilities is shown on Plates 2, 14 and 15.  The plan of 
affected private improvements is shown on Plate 2, and the inventory of 
private improvements is presented in Table 2-4.

2-02  Population.  According to the 1950 census, the population of Osage 
was 425.  The current estimated population is 400 persons.  There are 
approximately 150 persons located in the affected area of which about 90 
would relocate to the new area.  A steady slow decline in population is 
indicated.

2-03  Governmental buildings.  The Town owns a jail house located within 
the right-of-way of Osage Avenue, 190 feet west of First Street.  The jail 
is 20'-3" by 24'-0".  The west half of the building is masonry construction 
with 18-inch walls, concrete floor and a masonry roof.  The east half of 
the building has a concrete floor, corrugated metal siding on plywood frame 
walls, and a corrugated metal roof.  A plan of the building is shown on 
Plate 15.

2-04  Water system.  The Town obtains all its domestic water from three 
wells as shown on Plate 14.  These wells are above the effects of the 
Reservoir.  Chemical analyses of samples from each of the three wells are 
presented in Exhibit XII.  The water from the well located on the school 
property is very poor with high chlorides and total hardness.  The chloride 
content of the other two wells is also excessive when compared to the 
potable limit of 250 arts per million as allowed by the U. S. Public Health 
Service.  The water is pumped directly from the wells into two elevated 
tanks of 4,335 gallons and 4,554 gallons, respectively.

[The "facilitity listing" goes on to discribe water, sewer, drainage, phone, 
power lines, etc which lie in the effected area.]

Source:
Keystone Dam and Reservoir
Arkansas River, Oklahoma
Design Memorandum No. 53
Relocation of Municipal Facilities 
Osage, Oklahoma
U. S. Army Engineer District, Tulsa
Corps of Engineers
Tulsa, Oklahoma
June 1960