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<br />':,","'l <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />..... investigation or the erfect that upstream programs might have <br />W on water yield from tbe large watersheds. At the present time, <br />~~ this is confined more or less to exploring the possibilities or <br />00 such a study. The work is being carried out at our Waco, Tex., <br />station under the direction of Mr. Ralph Baird with whom you <br />are probably acquainted. I do not know how much progress Mr. <br />Baird and his staff have mde." <br /> <br />Mr. Baird bas not been contacted yet. <br /> <br />r. Harvard University Study <br /> <br />The graduate school of Public Administration is undertaking a three- <br />year program in tbe field of water resources planning and development <br />financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The program has two <br />broad objectives: Research on basic problems of water resources planning <br />and development; and advanced training of mature public servants working <br />in government water resources agencies. <br /> <br />The plan is to bring together in a weekly seminar a sDJl,ll number of <br />trainees (possibly ten each year) with faculty participants and from time <br />to tiJDe experts from government agencies and private life as consultants. <br />These will cover a specific program of research over tbe period or an <br />academic year. The research material will consist largely of data on <br />two river basins which tentatively are the Delaware and the Washita. <br />These two basins can be used to illustrate most or the special problems <br />which will be considered in the Seminar. One or the major problems <br />cited in background for the study is that of ''Upstream vs Downstream <br />Works." <br /> <br />The results of the first year's research will be tested and evaluated <br />during the second year; similarly the second year's results will be tested <br />during the third. It should then be possible to publisb definitive find- <br />ings of the research at the end of the three-year period, and such publica- <br />tion is intended as a major goal of tbe program. <br /> <br />g. Other Studies Completed <br /> <br />The Pond Creek study was SIlIIIlllluized in a report dated September 1952. <br />Tbe study was a cooperative effort of technicians representing the Federal <br />agencies and States which were JDembers of the AWRBIAC, during 13 weeks <br />early in 1952 to evaluate available climatological and streamflow data <br />concerning the Pond Creek sub-basin of the Washita River basin in south- <br />western Oklahoma. The purpose was stated to be "to evolve mutually ac- <br />ceptable procedures for evaluating hydrologic and economic erfects of <br />land treatment, small autoDJl,tic detention reservoirs and major reservoirs <br />in order tbat the flood control plans of the Department of Agriculture and <br />the Corps of Engineers may be integrated into comprehensive basin plans." <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />C/l-12 <br />