If that were to happen, entire neighborhoods would flood with water that the Tulsa Health Department said is likely to be full of snakes, sewage and debris.īynum warned that despite the night of better weather, there was still work to be done and residents should 'remain vigilant' and while there was no emergency in regards to the levees at the moment, 'there is high risk.' More than 2 million gallons of water a second has been flowing toward Tulsa, putting the city's 75-year-old network of levees at risk of failing. 'The rain that we were anticipating to be pretty severe ended up not being as bad as projected.' 'We were very fortunate last night, for the first time in about a week and a half, the weather broke our way,' Tulsa Mayor G.T. It will then begin to reduce the magnitude of that release, he said. He added that in the 'absence of additional rainfall and inflow coming into the reservoir,' the Corps will maintain the release of 275,000 cubic feet of water per second from the dam through late Thursday. Williams said thereservoir's elevation peaked Tuesday and was not dropping.
