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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The investigation will provide a feasibility evaluation of munic-
ipal and industrial water requirements in the project area and
the development of McGee Creek site to meet those needs. Principal
interests include Oklahoma City, city of Atoka, and Southern Okla-
homa Development Association Trust. McGee Creek site has been
previously studied by the Corps of Engineers. The Corps could not
recommend the project because of the limited flood control benefits.
However, Oklahoma City, the largest potential user of the project
water supply has indicated its willingness to assume repayment
costs with or without flood control benefits. The Oklahoma Water
Resources Board has placed the project in the short range plan of
development to the state. Bureau studies were initiated in
FY 1974 and are scheduled to be completed in FY 1977. The project
has been authorized for construction.

Corps of Engineers:

l. Red River Comprehensive Basin Study (See Map 1) An inter-
disciplinary investigation to identify, quantify and catalog the
water and related land resource development needs of the basin, to
develop, report on, and recommend measures responsive to these
needs and to categorize such measures 8S "early Be tion" or "10ng
range" depending upon the urgency of the needs for implementing
them. The study, a type 2 Comprehensive Basin Study, conducted
by the Ad Hoc Red River Basin Coordinating Committee, which was
composed of representatives of the Federal Departments of Agri-
culture; Army; Commerce; Health, Education and Welfare; Interior;
Federal Power Commission; and the states of Arkansas, Louisiana,
Oklahoma and Texas. The Department of the Army was represented
by the New Orleans and Tulsa District, and the New Orleans Dis-
trict served as chair agency. An interim report recommending
authorization of 9' x 200' slack water navigation channels in
Red River (Mississippi to Shreveport) and Twelve Mile-Cypress
Bayous (Shreveport to Daingerfield), and a comprehensive plan
for bsnk stabilization on Red River from Old River to Denison
Dam was completed by the Corps of Engineers in March, 1966, and
the recommended improvements authorized by Congress in August
1969. A second interim report recollunending improvements for
flood control and drainage in the Posten Bayou, Arkansas area
was completed in March 1968 and the recommended improvements au-
thorized under provisions of Section 20l of the Flood Control
Act of 1965 by Resolutions of the Senate and House Public Works
Committees, adopted December 17, 1970, and December 15, 1970,
respectively. The final report on the overall Comprehensive
study was forwarded to the Water Resources Council on July 11,
1968. A draft environmental statement was submitted to the
council in March 1972. The council filed the final environ-
mental statement with CEQ in August 1974. The Office of Man-
agement and Budget has approved transmittal of the comprehensive
report to Congress. The New Orleans Diatrict has completed
preparation of an "authorizing'l report, favorable to the con-
struction of three Corps of Engineers projects included in the

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