Missouri River Planning Recommendations

• State: MO
• Date: 4/1/1998
• Author: Missouri River Basin Association
• Title: Missouri River Planning Recommendations
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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decrease the amount of water
needed to fill the channel:
The Missouri River levees
should be bought to such
bank control projects and secure
funding
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-E' . The Corps should work
,levels that they would provide
adequate protection to the
for additional bank
control projects on the free-
with. tribal entities to identify
"and protect the cultural re-
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existing protected agricultural
flowing reaches of Ne Missouri
River: This will prevent the loss
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sources of the tribes from
areas and •municipal facilities.
of high bottom .land and reduce
erosion damage.
■ The Corps should allow
the formation of deltas in the"
reservoirs.
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approved, privately funded
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■ \ The.Missouri River-Basin plants`on the Missouri River.
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IRecommendations
A priority for water supply interests in the basin is to establish
acceptable minimum summer and winter flows that will satisfy water
supply needs and provide, adequate
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water to cool thermal discharges
from power generation. facilities. Several million people rely on the
the M Missouri River to provide their drinking water supplies. In addition,
issouri provides water for irrigation, thermal power and
plants, a variety of other industrial
needs. For these reasons, water supply is a high priority for the people of the Missouri basin. The
following recommendations
;are designed to protect the ample supply of municipal and industrial
water in the basin.
■ Water suppliers, including
`municipal water providers, ,
stream river stage targets, and study should also look at
water intakes should, in
should develop plans to im--
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some modifying, thermal standards.
� cases, be lowered.. for once- w
through - cooled power
prove efficiency and guar= ,
antee the continued-operation
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■ \ The.Missouri River-Basin plants`on the Missouri River.
of water intakes and capture _
systextis during low water
Association- should develop a ■ The Corps should work
levels. This could help ensure
prior notification process fore with the states-and tribes to '
proposed significant diversions 'identify and establish
adequate water supplies at .
lowe r flows..
minimum
of water frorn the system.. , instantaneous flows below all-
■ To support municipal and
main stem dams to protect
■ The Corps, tribes; and other_ water quality for water supply .
industrial uses along the entire
river system,.the
state and federal agencies purposes. Such minimum, flows
should work together to ensure would also supply benefits for-'-',
Corps-should
maintain adequate reservoir
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safe water ixali
q ty, ancLspecifi- � aquatic lifeand other desig-
cally, study the effect 'low
releases.1c, meet various =down-
of Hated uses..
water on water quality, The r .
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