WSP05420

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 8/1/1966
• Author: Missouri Basin IAC
• Title: Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study - Streamflow Characteristics - Platte-Niobrara Basins - For Selected Stations through 1963
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Data

INTRODUCTION

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STREAMFLOW CHARACTERISTICS

Purpose and Scope

The Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee (MBIAC) is actively
preparing a framework plan for the comprehensive development of the
water and related land resources of the Missouri River basin. So that
it can meet the specialized requirements of such a task, the MBIAC has
formed a Standing Committee on Comprehensive Basin Planning. This
Standing Committee, which is composed of representatives from seven
Federal agencies and each of the ten States in the Missouri basin, has
organized itself into five work groups, each with a fUnctional responsi-
bility and each to provide certain detailed information to the central
planning effort according to a predetermined schedule. One such work
group is the Work Group on Hydrologic Analyses and Projections.

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The HYdrology Work Group is made up of representatives of five of
the Federal agencies that have programs of water-resource development,
management or investigations in the Missouri River basin, and of repre-
sentatives of water-resources agencies of six of the basin States. The
ultimate objective of the HYdrology Work Group is to provide to the over-
all planning effort, estimates of water availability under current con-
ditions of development and for expected future levels of development as
of the years 1980, 2000 and 2020. Estimates of water availability are to
be based, in part, on analyses of ground water storage, quantities and
variability of streamflow, and factors relating to water quality.

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Use of Data

The tabulations presented herein represent the results of screening,
initial analysis, and summarization of the large amount of daily stream-
flow data which are available for streams in the Missouri basin, in order
to place these data in a more usable form for subsequent water availability
studies. These data will be used to develop streamflow volume - probability
curves for both high flows and low flows, and to relate these curves to
basin and hydrometeorological characteristics in order to develop general-
ized relationships that may be applied to ungaged areas. These generalized
relationships will then be used in the planning of water-resource develop-
ment projects under the multiagency comprehensive basin planning study
which is underway for the Missouri basin.

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Acknowledgements

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Data presented herein are based on records of streamflow collected by
the Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, in cooperation 'with
each State in the Missouri River basin, with local municipalities and with
other Federal agencies, including the Corps of Engineers, Public Health
Service, Bureau of Reclamation and Soil Conservation Service.

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