WSP05255

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 5/1/1980
• Author: MRBC
• Title: Missouri River Basin Water Resources Management Plan - Part II - Chapters VII-Appendix F
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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providing water, especially to small communities. Iowa and Minnesota modify

their support by encouraging water users to adopt water conservation measures.

Missouri has an objective to implement training and technical assistance

programs to assist in water conservation, and will strive to monitor the

quality of finished water, review plans for construction of water supply

facilities, and inspect such facilities in an effort to maintain the purity of

drinking water.

Power and energy objectives vary somewhat from State to State. Minnesota

opposes actions that would severely impair hydropower generation in the
Missouri River or its delivery to current Minnesota users, Location of power
plants is of major concern to Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri for many reasons,

Thermal and other pollution at power plant sites is basically limited to major

waterways such as the Missouri River.

Transportation objectives of the subbasin States recognize the importance

of Federal participation. Iowa specifically encourages the Federal Government

to finance and maintain the navigation on the Missouri River.

PLAN OVERVIEW

The plan for the Middle Missouri Subbasin includes the programs

recommended in this chapter, the programs recommended basinwide in chapter 2,

and the statewide programs that are recommended for the five States of

Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri in chapter 2.

As stated earlier, nonpoint source pollution is a major subbasin problem.

An important recommendation of the Middle Missouri Subbasin plan is, therefore,

to actively address agricultural runoff problems through implementation of the

Rural Clean Water Program, established by Section 208(j) of the Clean Water Act

of 1977, which would control agriculturally nonpoint sources of pollution on

private lands.