WSP05441

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 6/1/1949
• Author: DOI
• Title: The Interior Department in the Missouri Basin - Progress Report 1949
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

National Park Service
Bureau of Land Management
Fish & Wildlife Service
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Geological Survey
Bureau of Mines
. Total

$ 5J.O,000
.975,300
1,232,000
6J.O,500
8,284,200
'5150000
Gi12,187,000

Of the approximately 67 million dollars received by projects
other than the Missouri River Basin Project, more than 42 million
dollars was utilized on the Colorado-Big Thompson Project alone.

The actual amount of funds remaining unexpended at the end of
June 1949 will not be definitely known for 30 days or more, but the
above total of almost 182 million dollars oon be said to substantially
represent the total expenditures during the fou~year period.

At the present time, 15 major dams are under construction by the
Bureau of Reclamation. One diversion dam on the Republican River in
Nebraska has been completed and the construction of irrigation systems
is under way on the Frenchman-Cambridge Project in Nebraska and the
Savage Pumping Project in Montana.

A 30,OOa-acre extension of the Shoshone Project, one of the older
projects in the Basin, has been completed and a 50,000-acre extension
to the Riverton Project, another of the older projects, is well on its
way to completion.

The Heart Mountain POI./8rplant of 5,000 kilowatt capacity is the
only powerplant added to the Federal system during the four-year period
and was completed late in the. calendar year 19420

Some 290 miles of transmission lines were completed during fiscal
year 1949 and nearly 800 additional miles are under construction to
further extend the distribution of power from Federal pcwerplants al-
ready built uhen the Hissouri Basin Project was authorized.

During fiscal year 1949, seven major features of the J.lissouri
Basin Project were placed under construction and work was continued
on eight others.

InvestiGations being made by aeencies of the Department of the
Interior, other than the Bure,au of Reclamation, have now reached a
point where they have substantially brought their studies in line
with the progress being made by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Topographic surveying,of the Basin being made by the Geological
Survey, ~lhlle receivine the bulk of the money being made available,.
will continue at present to lag behind all of the work in the Basin,

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