The Bixby Fire Department reported no flooding is expected in that area. Gathering Place Executive Director Tony Moore said the park on Riverside Drive is not affected by the higher flow.

“The only area impacted is the natural wetland mitigation area designed to handle such overflow,” he said.

The Arkansas River is expected to stay within its banks in Tulsa as well as downstream at “pinch points” like Three Forks Harbor at Muskogee where the Arkansas, Verdigris and Grand rivers converge, and at Van Buren, Arkansas. Gauges in those areas show the river running at levels just below minor flood stage.

The increases at Keystone and at Kaw Dam upstream came in response to floodwaters from Kansas and across northern Oklahoma that worked their way downstream over the weekend. Combined flow into those lakes from the upper Arkansas and Cimarron rivers totaled 280,000 cfs that would have flowed through Tulsa if not for the reservoirs holding it back.

Data shows lake levels rising at Kaw and Keystone now, while the more urgent inflows and releases last week came on the Grand and Verdigris rivers. The flows on the Grand and Verdigris now have declined.