WSP08424

• File Number: 8449.924
• Description: Upper Platte River Study
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 1/1/1980
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Work Plan
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

3. determine channel-forming discharge characteristics;

4. use existing models to predict ice-cover conditions;

5. analyze stochastic models for flow projection, water

temperature, and air temperature;

6. determine surface-ground water relationships to wet meadow

environment and streamflow;

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Predict statistical properties of future flows for various

management alternatives; and

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estimate probability of future flows and predict how these flows

will affect the habitat.

SCOPE

The Upper Platte River study will have primarily a technical emphasis and

will not result in a "plan". The detail employed in assessment and evaluation

will vary because of variance in available data. The detail used will be

sufficient to identify and analyze present and potential conditions in terms of

problems, conflicts, and opportunities in the use of the basin's water and

related land resources. In most instances, existing data and information will

be used, with new data being developed only as required to fill specific

information gaps. Previous studies and programs will be updated as necessary.

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The geographic scope for each of the technical studies varies. For the

FWS effort, the primary study area is the Platte River reach from Sutherland to

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Chapman, Nebraska. For the WPRS study, the entire Platte River Basin extending

upstream from the confluence of the Loup River and the Platte River is the area

of study. The USGS will focus on the Platte River system from the proposed

Narrows Reservoir site on the South Platte River and Lake McConaughy on the

North platte River downstream to the confluence of the Loup and Platte Rivers.

The above notwithstanding, each of the agencies will be involved with the

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