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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c. Rush Springs Sandstone - OWRB completed in 1976.

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d. Garber-Wellington - Now underway, began in 1975.

e. Ogallala in Roger Mills, Harper, Ellis and Woodward counties,
understudy, began in 1976.

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Water Quality Division:

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a. Washita River Salinity Study below Foss Reservoir. An
extensive two year, two phase study to determine the effects of the
desalination waste on the thirty mile stretch of the river between
the dam and the city of Clinton.

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b. Fort Cobb Reservoir study - designated to evaluate the
chemical control (2-4-D) of s water weed commonly known as Eurasian
Watermilfoil.

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c. Washita Aquaculture - a pilot study to teat the feasibility
of the use of industrial waste water to produce a new food source
(catfish).

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d. Lake Texoma Thermal and Chemical Study - a study conducted
to gather thermal-load data to make an analysis and suggest an
optimum upper temperature limit.

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e. Lake Comanche Thermal Study - the scope of the study is
to determine the effects of thermal pollution on the chemical,
physical, and biological phenomena of the lake.

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f. Mountain Fork River Study - to determine the effects of
treated industrial effluent on the benthic macro invertebrate
community, chemical water quality, and certain physical character-
istics along a five mile length of Mt. Fork River, above and below
Weyerhauser Company's Craig Plant in McCurtain County.

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Waste Load Allocation Studies - being performed under
of FY 74 Water Pollution Control Program Plan. De-
study the decrease in dissolved oxygen due to the
organic wastes in streams.

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h. Statewide 208 Areawide'Waste Treatment Management Program -
A study to evaluate alternatives for a continuing management pro-
gram to provide the establishment of meaningful policies and to
aid in solving'the water quality problems of the State of Oklahoma,
both on a short term and long term basis.

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i. Wate, Quality Data Base Management - a storage and re-
trieval system of water quality data is maintained in cooperation
with other Federal agencies.

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