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  "description": "A former city manager has spent months pushing OSU and state regulators for answers.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-27T22:02:22.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Oklahoma State University engineers told a Stillwater civic group this month that repairing the Lake Carl Blackwell dam will cost $22 million — and that the university has no funding secured to do it — as a former Stillwater city manager continues to push OSU and state regulators for more aggressive action on the 89-year-old structure.\n\nCarl Weinaug, who served as Stillwater's city manager from 1983 to 2003, sent a letter in January 2026 to OSU leadership outlining six specific actions he is asking the university to take regarding the dam's safety. Weinaug has spent months building public awareness through a Facebook page called Protect Stillwater OK and a website, dambreachmap.com, arguing that decades of documented warnings about the dam have gone without adequate response.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "The plans to fix Lake Carl Blackwell dam are ready. The $22 million to build them isn't.",
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