PRRIP Draft Environmental Impact Statement Summary

• Description: Summary of Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Draft Environmental Impact Statement ‎(EIS)‎ Assessing Alternatives for Implementation of a Basinwide, Cooperative, Endangered Species Recovery Program
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 12/1/2003
• Author: Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Title: Summary of Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ‎(PRRIP)‎ Draft Environmental Impact Statement ‎(EIS)‎
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

Platte River Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Figure E -4. —The Platte River opposite Platte City (near present -day Cozad, Nebraska) October 1866.
(John Carbutt, photographer. From the collection of the Union Pacific Railroad.)
By the late 1880s, the waters of the South Platte and North Platte River Basins were largely over -
appropriated; that is, the demand for irrigation water exceeded the available supply, especially during the
late summer.