1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – A view of the Tuttle Creek stilling basin in Manhattan, Kan., from the top of the dam showing the water flow. July 19, 2021. Rehabilitation of the stilling ...

Maximum depths range from 72 feet for Tuttle Creek Reservoir, ... which lake manager Brock DeLong told The Capital Journal has a maximum depth of 30.5 feet. That lake encompasses 6,160 surface acres.

More than three years after the start of the Stilling Basin rehabilitation project at Tuttle Creek Lake, the area, locally known as the tubes has been reopened to the public.

Tuttle Creek Lake experienced the second highest pool ever on May 31, 2019 at elevation 1135.84 msl, +60.84 feet above conservation pool and just 2 inches below the top of the spillway gates.