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<br />Paleoflood Hydrology, Design of Hydraulic Structures, and Water-Resources Management <br />(cont) <br /> <br />USGS researchers currently are collaborating with other Regional, State, and Federal <br />water-agency personnel, dam owners, and consulting water-resources engineers to study <br />additional indirect benefits from these smaller flood-control storage requirements of many <br />existing dams in the Rocky Mountains. Studying the operation of existing dams will <br />provide additional benefits by utilizing part of the flood-control storage of each existing <br />dam for other uses. Unnecessary flood-control storage would be available for water <br />storage for domestic and municipal water-supply, irrigation, ecological, environmental, <br />recreational, and other uses. Water in many western river basins is nearly fully allocated <br />and in some basins is already fully allocated. Future growth will increase water-supply <br />needs. Because construction of new dams is unlikely, additional research on flooding and <br />the use of water storage in existing dams will be extremely advantageous to the public and <br />to the improved use of the Nation's water resources. <br />