Work on Clinton Reservoir nears completion
Wednesday, March 5, 1980
University Daily Kansan
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Reporter
The Clinton Reservoir is all but officially open with only cosmetic work remaining on the 25,000 acre flood-control and recreation area. Conservation of the lake is scheduled for July 5.
Although the date for total completion is in 1891, area residents have been using the lake and for the past year, Victory Counts, Army Corps of Engineers, said yesterday.
Several phases of the project are com-
including a site visit, a treatment inter-
view that was dedicated on Satu-
rday. The state park that covers two
miles on the northern side of the park
will be opened to the reservoir will be open this
spring for boating, fishing, sailing and picnicking, Counts said.
"Everything is going great," Counts said.
"We are opening up and trying to turn over the facilities to the public as quickly as we can.
"We want to make it accessible to the public. All that remains are the finishing tracuces."
The opening comes after years of work on the project by the Corps. Planning for the lake started in the 1960s, and construction began in the early 1970s.
Located just west of Lawrence, the Clinton Reservoir is expected to have a sizable impact on the city. Kansans are expecting that the reservoir will nearly 10,000 a day during the first year of
THE LAKE will be among the largest in the state, with 7,000 acres of water surface. Lake Perry has about 12,500 surface acres and Pomona Lake only 5,500.
operation, according to Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission figures.
The recreation area will be under the supervision of at least three agencies. The Corps will maintain its operation, and the teams will provide its camping, and recreation area.
The Kansas Fish and Game Commission will operate a fish and wildlife habitat in the western sector of the lake. The habitat will be used for licensed hunting.
Fishing in the lake will fall under state laws and no special lake permit will be needed. The lake has been stocked with fish
indigenous to the area, bass mainly, and with walleye and northern pike, Counts said.
RECREATION POSSIBILITIES in the Clinton Park include biking, sheltered picnicking and swimming at a park beach. But the swimming beach might be nothing more than a wading pool unless the water level in the arches to the necessary 7½ feet. Count said.
A marina is under construction with 132 boat spaces available for leasing by the public.
Several areas overlooking the reservoir have been authorized for private development. Approximately 15,000 acres of
land are available for public recreational use, which Counts encouraged.
Clinton will be the site of the first Kansas State Orienteering championships on April 20. Orienteering involves cross country and a wooded terrain with a map and a compass.
The competition will be divided by skill and by sex. Applications are available at SUA.
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