{"id":23289,"date":"2015-03-17T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=23289"},"modified":"2015-03-17T15:56:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:56:05","slug":"duncan-left-wanting-after-state-drought-assistance-for-water-project-falls-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2015\/03\/17\/duncan-left-wanting-after-state-drought-assistance-for-water-project-falls-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Duncan Left Wanting After State Drought Assistance For Water Project Falls Through"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19267\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19267\" alt=\"20142803-DuncanDrought\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2014\/03\/20142803-DuncanDrought-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">J. Stephen Conn \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<\/div><p>Duncan, Oklahoma has taken some of the worst of the drought these past five years. Stage 5 water rationing is in effect, which means \u2014 with few exceptions \u2014 a ban on all outside watering.<\/p><p>One option the city was looking at to relieve its drought disaster was to pump water from nearby Clear Creek Lake, but as\u00a0<em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a title=\"NewsOKlink\" href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/amid-drought-duncan-seeks-options-as-grant-hopes-dry-up\/article\/5401809\" target=\"_blank\">Silas Allen reports<\/a>, funding from that project will have to come from somewhere other than the Oklahoma Water Resources Board:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Duncan applied late last year for a $500,000 drought mitigation grant from the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. City official hoped to use the funding to pump water from Clear Creek Lake, a reservoir the city hasn&#8217;t used in decades. The board announced the list of grant recipients earlier this month, and Duncan wasn&#8217;t among them.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>OWRB Executive Director J.D. Strong told <em>The Oklahoman<\/em> the reason Duncan was denied the grant\u00a0is simple: Because funds are limited, they go to much smaller, and even more desperate, communities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year&#8217;s grants went to Shattuck, Fort Supply, Boise City and Frontier Development Authority in Butler. All four communities have populations less than 2,000. Duncan&#8217;s estimated population in 2013 was 23,400, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>Not all hope is lost for the Clear Creek Lake project, however. The city is now looking for help from the federal government. Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Duncan officials are also moving forward with a pipeline project that would carry water from Waurika Lake directly to Lake Humphreys, a city-owned reservoir, bypassing the Lake Humphreys pump station. That project is being funded by the Duncan Area Economic Development Foundation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OWRB Executive Director J.D. Strong told The Oklahoman the reason Duncan was denied the grant is simple. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":19267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491],"tags":[423,540,444,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23289"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23301,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23289\/revisions\/23301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}