WSP11387

• File Number: 8449
• Description: South Platte Projects
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Date: 6/1/1959
• Author: USDOI/BOR
• Title: Report on the South Platte River Basin - Colorado-Wyoming-Nebraska
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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LIST OF CHAPTERS

Chapter Page
1 Purpose of Report , . . 1
2 Description of the Basin. . 6
3 Present Development . 38
4 Water Supply. 72
5 Floods - Sediment Control - Quality of Water. . 145
6 Chronology of Reclamation Activities. . 167
7 Mt. Evans Division. 173
8 Longe Peak Division . . . . 194
9 South Platte Division . , . . . . 224
10 Cooperating Agencies. . . . . 249
11 Index of Investigations . ,. . 266

DETAILED CONTENTS

List of Statistical Tables
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Chapter l.--Purpose of Report

Introduction .. . .
Colorado Intrastate Water Controversy.
Future Water Development .
Arrangement of Report. .

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Chapter 2.--Description of the Basin

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Location and Area, . . . .
Features . . .
Rivers and streams. , . .
Physiography and topography .
Vegetation, , . . . .
Fish, wildlife, recreation. . . .
Climate. . . . . . . .
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