Gates open at Lake Conway All operational gates at Lake Conway Dam were opened today as previously planned and announced by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. The opening of the gates will allow the lake to drain faster in preparation for the lake restoration project announced last June. The lake will drop another 2 feet from its current level to approximately 257 feet above sea level now that the gates have been opened. The lake will still contain large amounts of surface water at this leve

Lake Conway was built in 1948, and at the time was the largest lake ever constructed by a state wildlife agency. After 75 years, AGFC is rehabilitating this central Arkansas treasure. Increased engineering knowledge and technology during the last 75 years has made it possible to replace the old gate system with a new design that will allow water to be released instantaneously over a spillway and accommodate rising lake levels. This eliminates the need to manually raise and lower gates to regulat

MAYFLOWER - At 10 a.m. this morning (June 7, 2019), Craig D. Campbell Lake Conway Reservoir crested at 267.97 feet above mean sea level, 5 feet above its normal elevation. The water level within Palarm Creek, which was coming into the lake, has now fallen enough for AGFC staff to open the gates and begin evacuating water. Baring any major rain events, it will still take several days for the lake to drop below flood stage (266.0 feet msl). Although the exact level of flooding was not predictable,