Atoka Lake


Located four miles North of Atoka in Southeastern Oklahoma, Lake Atoka was constructed in 1959 by the city of Oklahoma City; it supplies water to Lake Stanley Draper in Oklahoma City through a 60-inch pipeline. The lake has a surface area of 5,477 acres with an average depth of 26 feet with 70 miles of shoreline and a capacity of 105,195 acre-feet.
Lake Atoka Reservoir is a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma, north of Atoka, Oklahoma, county seat of Atoka County, Oklahoma. It was built in 1959 to expand the water supply for Lake Stanley Draper, which supplies the water systems of Oklahoma City and Atoka. The source of water is North Boggy Creek.DescriptionThe lake has a surface area of, an average depth of, of shoreline and a capacity of. Its length is.

Litigation over water rights

Atoka Lake is mentioned along with Sardis Lake, the Kiamichi Basin and the Clear Boggy Basin in a current court case, alleging that the state has violated the water rights of specific Native American tribes. The case was filed in 2011, and seeks to prevent of limit withdrawals of water from the named sources by the city of Oklahoma City and approved by the Oklahoma Water Resources Board.