Haynes remembers building El Dorado dam & friend lost working on it - Butler County Times-Gazette

Haynes remembers building El Dorado dam & friend lost working on it - Butler County Times-Gazette

Nikole Babb nbabb@cherryroad.com The history of the El Dorado Lake and El Dorado Dam date back to the early 70’s when construction began and early 80’s when it was completed. The Dam in particular was constructed for flood control of the area, which was quoted in prior newspapers to hold 79,200 acre-feet of flood control storage. One man, Rod Haynes, who now lives in Joplin, took a trip to El Dorado to reminisce on his work he’d done on the mass…