WSP10541

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/1971
• Author: Missouri Basin Inter
• Title: Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study - Volume IV - Economic Analysis and Projections - Appendix
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

Dakota, Eastern Dakota, Platte-Niobrara, Middle Mis-
souri, Kansas, and Lower Missouri. There was no
corresponding subbasin or subregion designated. The
hydrologic and corresponding political delineations of
the basin are shown on plate I.
The eight subregions were further subdivided into 27
smaller subareas. Again, these followed political bound-
aries, but approximated minor hydrologic drainage
systems. In addition, II Standard Metropolitan Statisti-
cal Areas (SMSA) in the region were broken out
separately and projections developed for them. Because
of their strategic economic importance in explaining
spatial economic growth and rationalizing projected
economic and population changes, separate treatment of
these larger urban areas was warranted.

ORGANIZATION OF THE APPENDIX

This appendix has been organized to give the reader a
chronological picture of the Missouri River Basin,
beginning with the relevant history and proceeding to
projections through the year 2020. As such, the first
chapter covers the background of the Comprehensive
Framework Plan and the events which precipitated the
study. The chapter also contains a discussion of the
objectives of comprehensive planning within the overall
national water resource planning framework.
Chapter 2 is devoted to a physical description of the
basin, the major historical events which helped to shape
the development of the basin's economy, and the
resource endowments of the basin.
In chapter 3, information on the region's economy
for the 1940-1960 period is presented. Detailed employ-
ment, income, earnings, and popu~a~io~~t~__'!.!e_gLv~n__ _
'--fonhe-region-aiiCl--nscomponents, and analyses of the
region's historical development to the current period are
presented. While many elements of an economic base
study are contained in this chapter and the one
following, the appendix lacks sufficient production data
and information on structural interdependencies of the
economy to qualify it as a complete economic base
study. However, the historic base and the projections are
sufficient to provide a projected framework for water
and related land resource planning in the basin. The final
section of this chapter contains brief summaries of the
physical, demographic and economic characteristics of
the eight subregions.

4

Chapter 4 discusses the projected economy of the
region for the three target years, 1980, 2000, and 2020.
The format and content of the chapter are similar to
those of the previous chapter. Detailed economic and
population projections for the target years are presented
for the Nation and for all geographic units identified in
the region.
Chapter 5 was written following the development of
the Comprehensive Framework Plan by the Resource
Development Work Group. A generalized plan indicating
the level of new water investments was made relating to
projected needs. These investments were identified by
subbasin. The Economic Work Group then assessed the
changes in earlier projected parameters that wOuld be
expected to occur as a result of such investments. This
chapter is intended to reflect the relative impact that
certain water resource developments will have upon the
region's projected economy.

Chapter 6 describes the methodology used in the
development of the various projections. The national
projection model is first presented, followed by state-
ments on procedures followed in disaggregating employ-
ment and population to smaller geographic and
industrial levels. The last two sections are concerned
with procedures for projecting national demands for
agricultural and minerals production, employment, and
population related to these levels, and the disaggregation
of these to regional and subregion levels.

The appendix concludes with a Statistical Supple-
ment on population, employment, and income; agricul-
ture; timber resources; mineral resources; and
supplemental projections. After the plan for water and
related land .resources was fOf the -most part completed,
in January 1969 the Water Resources Council ,'lent
revised demographic and economic projections re-
questing the new projections be evaluated. The revised
projections were deemed necessary primarily due to
lower estimates of population growth, revised rates of
productivity, and other criteria described in the Supple-
ment. Because of the advanced status of the framework
study at the time the new projections were received, the
Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee deemed it in-
advisable to interrupt the study. Therefore the supple-
ment notes the differences between the original and
revised projections and the general implications this
might have on the plan as it was devised.