[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.8230]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Lake builders stood on a lofty knoll northof here this week and vainly "wished" the water out of the Atoka reservoir. It was a wish repeated by an army of contruction workers who are building Oklahoma City's biggest storage lake in the face of an ironic obstacile - the very water with which they hope to fill it up. Guy H. James, who hold the largest single contract on the multi-million dollar project, gazed wishfully across the scooped-out reservior site and declared "the water down there gets neck deep to a tall giraffe when it rains." And it has rained enough to touch at least three rampaging floods at the base of the dam site......Despite the setbacks, scores of workers and tons of equipment hanve made a mighty "dent" in the job . The dent, 30 feet deep in places, should begin filling up with the first 125,000 acre feet of water by the end of the year, according to Morission B. Cunningham, city water superintendent...Here, an intake tower is partially complete and a cement conduit eight feet high and eight feet wide has been built underground to channel the waters of the North Boggy through the dam and into the river bed below it. (photo tag: "Drillers bore through dirt and sandstone at the site of the Atoka reservoir where they plan to setoff 4,000 pounds of explosives on the spillway area. Dozens of holes will be drilled along the plateau and then loaded with dynamite for the blast which should take off a layer 15 feet deep. Across the 80-foot deep gorge can be seen the access road which will cross the center of the earthen dam.)