Lake Cooper was scheduled to start when I was a Senior in High School. I am 75 years old now, so I will let you do the math as to when this was and when they actually built the lake. They were interviewing for people to go into the lake area to move the old grave yards that would be covered by the lake. You would have had to go in and stay in a camp until the moves were finished and then stay in quartine for a period of time. Some of my buddies and I were set to do this because the money was very good. It was defunded before the work was to start.
Back in 2004 or 2005 I was on the board of directors for a rural water supply. We were given presentation of plans and a tour of the Bois D'Arc lake site. There were enviormental Activist fighting it back then because some bird nested in that area. If it takes just half as long as it took for Cooper to actually start construction many of us will never see it.