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<br />Table 6 - PRIMARY USES OF LAND AND WATER AREA
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<br /> Transp.
<br /> Fish and Urban & Mineral
<br />Subbasin Agriculture2 Recreation 3 Wildlife 3 Built-Up Water Area4 Industry MiIi tary Total
<br /> (Thousand Acres)
<br />Upper Missouri 50,382 519 182 1,200 670 3 7 52,963
<br />Yellowstone 43,152 1,408 34 243 345 9 9 45,200
<br />Western Dakota 47,289 334 101 898 472 3 269 49,356
<br />Eastern Dakota 34,399 38 427 1,536 902 1 1 37,303
<br />Platte-Niobrara 60,787 377 254 1,4 74 654 6 123 63,675
<br />Middle Missouri 14,901 37 60 565 174 2 6 15,745
<br />Kansas 37,182 36 21 1,189 336 6 106 38,876
<br />Lower Missouri 24,300 65 69 585 266 3 102 25,390
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<br />Misso uri Basin 312,392 2,814 1,148 7,680 3,819 33 622 328,508
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<br />I Less than 500 acres.
<br />21ncludes cropland, pasture & range, forest, and other agricultural lands.
<br />3Figures shown are for single-purpose lands, but an additional 8,764,000 acres are included in other categories that are jointly used
<br />and have primary value for fish and wildlife.
<br />41ncludes primary water area of recreation and fish and wildlife.
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<br />Table 7 - SUMMARY OF PRIMARY AND ANCILLARY USES OF LAND AND WATER AREA
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<br /> Fish and Urban & Water Mineral
<br />Subbasin Agriculture 1 Recreation Wildlife Built-Up Area Industry Military Total 2
<br /> (Thousand Acres)
<br />Upper Missouri 53,710 14,774 51,687 1,200 670 3 7 122,051
<br />Yellowstone 45,742 13,311 44,914 327 346 9 9 104,658
<br />Western Dakota 51,055 10,708 48,316 1,508 500 3 345 112,435
<br />Eastern Dakota 34,520 1,490 35,615 1,536 902 1 0 74,064
<br />Platte-Niobrara 64,054 8,380 61,985 1,4 74 743 6 358 137,000
<br />Middle Missouri 15,580 209 15,057 566 174 2 6 31,594
<br />Kansas 37,680 431 37,508 1,202 646 6 127 77,600
<br />Lower Missouri 28,019 949 24,566 984 266 3 102 54,889
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<br />Missouri Basin 330,360 50,252 319,648 8,797 4,247 33 954 714,291
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<br />I Agriculture includes cropland, pasture and range, forest, and other agricultural lands.
<br />2 Includes both primary and secondary uses of land and water.
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<br />Table 8 - ORIGIN OF MEAN ANNUAL FLOW OF
<br />MISSOURI RIVER
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<br />Subbasin
<br />
<br />Million Acre-Feet
<br />Per Year (1970)
<br />7.7
<br />8.8
<br />2.4
<br />3.2
<br />4.2
<br />7.7
<br />4.2
<br />17.3
<br />55.5
<br />...;:.!.:2..
<br />53.6
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<br />Upper Missouri
<br />Yellowstone
<br />Western Dakota
<br />Eastern Dakota
<br />Platte-Niobrara
<br />Middle Missouri
<br />Kan sas
<br />Lower Missouri
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<br />Subtotal
<br />Main Stem Reservoir Evaporation
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<br />Total
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<br />Hermann reflecting the 1970 level of upstream develop-
<br />ment is 53.6 million acre-feet.
<br />There is a huge amount of ground water in storage in
<br />principal aquifers of the Missouri Basin. Plate 3 shows
<br />the estimated amount of ground water in storage in
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<br />selected areas in each of the eight subbasins. Character-
<br />istics of some of the aquifers are fairly well known.
<br />However, development of much of the ground water and
<br />determination of its quality awaits further investigation.
<br />There is some intermingling of surface water and ground
<br />water, the full extent of which has not yet been
<br />investigated.
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<br />Minerals
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<br />Mineral resources of the basin are most conveniently
<br />described by grouping the many mineral commodities
<br />into three categories - metallics, nonmetallics, and fuels.
<br />Metallic mineral resources in the basin are generally
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<br />associated with orogenic provinces - mountainous areas
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<br />- and their peripheral outwash plains. Metallic ores are
<br />produced in significant quantities from the mountainous
<br />areas of central Montana, central Wyoming, and north-
<br />central Colorado, and from the Black Hills of South
<br />Dakota.
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