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<br /> <br />Dt1;;~;. <br /> <br />DEPARr.:I::i:T OF THE ARliY <br />Kansas City District, Corps of Engineers <br />700 Federal Building <br />Kansas City, :assouri 64106 <br /> <br />Freli=lnarv S~atement on the Invest!~atlo~-!~ <br />--.'-Bi~ l'h'e River -Ba!:~n. Nebraska and Kan~ <br /> <br />Septe~ber 1966 <br /> <br />1. The authority for this investigation is provided in a r~solution <br />of the COIrnlittee on Publtc t,'orks, Ua::'ted States Senate, .....h~_ch was sponsored <br />jointly by Senators Roman L. Hruska and Carl T. CUr~is llnd H<::'S adopted on <br />2 October 1961 as fo:1m~s: <br /> <br />"Resolved by the Co:r.I:littee on Public Eorks of the United <br />States Senate, That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and <br />Harbors> created under Section 3 of the River and Har~or Act, <br />approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby, requested to review <br />the reports of the Chief of Engineers on the Kansas River and <br />tributaries, Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, published as House <br />DocUtr.ent No. 642, Eighty-first Congress, second session, and <br />other reports, with a view to dete~ining whether the reco~- <br />mendations contained therein should be modified in any way at <br />the present time, with particular reference to the advisability <br />of constructing additional improvements in the ir.terest of <br />flood control ~d allied pU~poses in the Big Blue River Basin <br />in Nebraska and Kansas." <br /> <br />2, <br />minetion <br />quality, <br />resource <br /> <br />The investigation is of survey scope and deals with the deter- <br />of needs for flood control. irrigation. water supply, water <br />recreation and fish and wildlife, and related water and land <br />development. <br /> <br />3. The Big Blue River rises in the plains of sOuth-central Nebraska <br />and flo.....s on a Southeasterly course to its mouth at Kansas River mile <br />147.5, near Hanhattan, Kansas. The basin has a drainage area of 9,600 <br />square miles, of which 7,200 square miles are in ~ebraska and 2.400 miles <br />are in Kansas. The Little Blue River is the principal tributary of the <br />Big Blue River, joining that streac near Blue Rapids, Kansas. The con- <br />fluence of these two streams 15 now located in the Tuttle Creek Reservoir. <br />The economy of the basin is pt"edocinar.tly agricultural end the major <br />products are scalI grains and livestock. The Cities and to~~s throughout <br />the basin serve primarily as marketing und distr~bution centers for the <br />surrounding agricultural regions, and many of them lie wholly or partly <br />within the flood plain areas. The 1960 basin population was approximately <br />226,000, of ~rich 83,000 resided in towns of cities having populations <br />of 1,000 or more. The topography ranges froQ broad, gently-rolling pl~i~~ <br />in the western portion of the basin to core broken and hilly :erra!n ~~ <br /> <br />-- <br /> <br />