WSP11691

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 4/1/1977
• Title: Technical Memorandum -- Activity 3 Phase II -- Specific Problem Analysis - 1975 National Assessment -- Arkansas-White-Red Region Part 2 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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MISSOURI

Other ongoing and proposed studies in the ~!.tll.&fJ~ld_.prob-
lem~ea follow:

A study was made and a report is in the publication stage,
titled "Geology and Water Resources of the Springfield, Missouri,
Area." This report, prepared by the U. S. Geological Survey
and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources - Division of
Geology and Land Survey, is centered around Springfield and covers
most of Greene County, the northern part of Christian County, and
the extreme western part of Webster County. Additional descrip-
tive data on the area can be found in the first part of this sec-
tion.

Statewide planning through Section 208 of P. L. 92-500 will
include the Springfield Problem Area. From this statewide study,
recommendations may be made for additional and detailed studies
on two subjects:

1. Urban storm water runoff, and

2. Groundwater pollution

James River Basin Study, including the proposed County Line
Reservoir is to be considered for additional investigation of
alternative sources of water supply for Springfield.

Groundwater studies, nonpoint pollution studies and alternative
surface source for future municipal water supply will have to be
interdisciplinary and multi-agency in organization. No one set
of technicians or single agency could provide for the implementa-
tion of study recommendationa.

There are no. P. L. 566 (U. S. Department of Agriculture)
watershed projects in the area.

Interrelationship of Problems:

The interrelationship between the problems of water supply
from surface and groundwater sources are complex. To this complexity
is added the problem of nonpoint source pollution in both surface
streams and groundwater aquifers. If studies are not made to pro-
vice the hard data for guiding deCisions, then decisions about
future water supply source, in particular will be made anyway. In
a large, expanding urban area it is expected that the public will
require decisions when faced with real shortages.

Negative and Positive Effects of not Making Studies:

If proposed studies are not made, and associated proposals
carried out, there will be times of water shortages and continued
discharges of polluted water.

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