Destroyer X Productions - 024 (Keystone Dam: May 22, 2019)
3Musical credits:
• Song: "Down the Tubes"
• Artist/Source: "Earthworm Jim: Special Edition"
• Song: "Ending"
• Artist/Source: "Earthworm Jim: Special Edition"
• Song: "Pisco Sour"
• Artist/Source: "Gunnar Olsen"
For this new Destroyer X Productions Quickie, I wanted to shoot a video of the water that was being released from Keystone Dam on May 22, 2019.
According to the information from Wikipedia:
"Keystone Lake is a reservoir in northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas and Cimarron rivers. It is located upstream about 23 miles (37 km) from Tulsa. It was created in 1968 when the Keystone Dam was completed. The primary purposes are: flood control, hydroelectric power generation, wildlife management and recreation."
According to a news report from the Tulsa World on May 22, 2019:
"The Army Corps of Engineers plans to increase the rate of water released from Keystone Dam from 160,000 to 215,000 cubic feet per second Wednesday, bringing the Arkansas River in Tulsa to its highest level since 1986 flooding."
The reason for my visit to Keystone Dam was twofold: 1.) I have not visited Keystone Dam in several years, and 2.) I wanted to take pictures of and film the amount of water that was being released from Keystone Dam.
This was my first time to shoot video with my Nikon D750, and I do apologize for the amount of camera shake in the video. I was not using a tripod to shoot this video, and I do not have a harness that some professionals use with their Digital SLR cameras to shoot video.
Overall, it was definitely fascinating to see so much water being released from Keystone Dam, but it also comes as a trade off because the amount of released water does end up further down the Arkansas River which increases the potential of flooding downstream.