WSP09812

• File Number: 8407
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 9/1/1982
• Author: Corps of Engineers
• Title: Six State High Plains-Ogallala Aquifer Regional Resources Study - Appendixes Part I - A - B - and C
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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STUDY OBJECTIVES

The objective of the Corps' studies waS to investigate the transfer

of water from Lake Francis Case at Fort Randall Dam in southeastern

South Dakota to Bonny Reservoir in northeastern Colorado (the Fort

Randall-Bonny Reservoir diversion route). A regional map is shown as

figure 1.

STUDY ORGANIZATION
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This report was prepared by the Omaha District Corps under the

supervision of the Southwestern Division (SWD). The Missouri River

Division (MRD) furnished guidance, review, and analysis of the impacts

to the Missouri River that would result from the proposed diversion.

REVIEW OF PREVIOUS REPORTS

Three water transfer studies have previously been conducted in the

Omaha District area. These are "A New Water Plan for the Great Plains,"

prepared by R. W. Beck and Associates in 1967 (the Beck Plan); the

"Report on the Framework Study of the State Water Plan" (Nebraska Frame-

work Study), by the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission (Nebraska NRC)

in 1970; and the "Review Report for Metropolitan Omaha, Nebraska--Council

Bluffs, Iowa," prepared by the Omaha District in 1975.

The Beck Plan envisioned diversion of water from the Missouri

River below Fort Randall Dam in amounts ranging from 9 to 15 million

acre-feet annually (MAFA). Through a series of dams and pumping

plants, water would be diverted up the Niobrara River in northern

Nebraska to the headworks of a large canal in northwestern Nebraska.

From the headworks, water would flow by gravity southward across

eastern Colorado, the Oklahoma Panhandle, and the western portion of

Texas before terminating at the Pecos River. This plan would provide

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