WSP08995

• File Number: 8410.350
• Description: Basin Multistate Organizations - Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 6/27/1968
• Author: MBIAC
• Title: Comprehensive Framework Study - Fourth Annual Report by Standing Committee to MBIAC
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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as high 86 6 inches and as lavas 0.4 inches.
range from _600 to over 1200, v1th belov zero
experienced over much of the Basin.

Seasonal temperatures
to over 1000 temperatures

In 1960 the Basin vas populated by 7.8 million people, consisting
of 8pproxlmate~ 20 percent on farms, about 26 percent in the rural non-
farm areas, and the remaining 54 percent in urban communities.

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While it is the intention of the Standing Committee to prepare a
framework plan forthe entire Missouri Basin they recognize that, for
planning purposes, it was necessary to eubdivide the Basin into some
logical subbasins. Eight planning basins and the Missouri River vere
finally selected. These are:

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a. Upper Missouri (which includes all of the drainage of the
Missouri River above the mouth of the Yellovstone)

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c. Western Dakota Tributaries (vhich include all the tribu-
taries floving from. the vest betveen the mouth of the
Yellowstone and the mouth of the Niobrara Rivers)

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b. Yellovstone River Subbasin

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d. Eastern Dakota Tributaries (which includes the drainage
area east of the Missouri River from the mouth ot the
Yellovstone to Sioux City)

e. Platte-Niobrara Subbasin

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