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

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FIGURES
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Whooping Crane & Piping Plover Critical Habitat in the
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Platte River Basin and the Proposed Program Habitat Areas
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Sub - basins of the Platte River as Defined in the EIS
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Figure E -3.
—The Target Species – Piping Plover, Pallid Sturgeon,
Interior Least Tern, and Whooping Crane
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Figure E -4.
—The Platte River opposite Platte City (near present -day Cozad,
Nebraska) October 1866.
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Figure E-5.—Median
mean daily flow in the Platte River at Duncan, Nebraska,
In 1895 -1909 versus 1975 -1998.
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Figure E -6.—
Magnitude and timing of peak mean daily flows at Overton, Nebraska
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Figure E -7.—
Central Platte schematic displaying average annual flow.
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Figure E-8.—Property
survey map of Dawson County, Nebraska, in 1904,
showing river widths of approximately 1 mile.
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Figure E- 9.—
Widths of the Central Platte River at six time periods.
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Figure E- I O.—Methods
for increasing open view and offsetting erosion in the channel.
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Figure E -11.—
Cross - section of the river on Cottonwood Ranch illustrating
the types of channel restoration activities described in this scenario.
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Figure E -12.—
Options for increasing the Program's capacity to move water
to the habitat area.
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Figure E -13.—
Potential Methods for Increasing Program Capacity to Create
Short - Duration High Flows Near Bank -full in the Central Platte
Habitat Area
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Figure E -14.– Present Conditions median riverflows at Grand Island, and flows under
the Governance Committee Alternative, Scenario 2, compared to
Service Species and Annual Pulse Flow targets
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