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<br />, 00003" <br /> <br />SOUTH PLATTE RIVER BASI!! (2) <br /> <br />Pro~ra2 %5.000: Tb allocatio;"! for fiscal year 1943 l.lnS for the <br />purpose of naJdnr< investigations and producinG 8 comprehensive report <br />on the '~:ntire South Platte River Basin. Hithin the Basin therG are <br />alrGacy three ~~jor activitics undGr>lay, namGly, the Colorado-Big <br />TI10m~son ProjGct, the BluG River-South PlattG investigation, and the <br />;larr::>IJs Unit of the Missouri River Basin Project. T;lose three activ- <br />itiGS absorbed practically all persor~'1el lIithin the Basin durin;:: the <br />?ast y"ar and the only information to bo obtaL1cd to l'ound ont a co!J- <br />prehensive Basin re=,ort is that related to the effects pred:lced by <br />these throe activities. Under these conditions there is little prol;- <br />ress to report on the comprehensive study. <br /> <br />The latGst nonthly r~port indicates that tho Basin studies arc <br />45 percent couplete but the srune percentaGe of conpletion was reportGd <br />as fer beck as October 1947. <br /> <br />A cco=,Grative study of the Ground lIater resources in the Basin <br />has bee:! Ul1clGl~'a;r throuchout the yoar undGr the diroction of the <br />U. S. G"olo~ieal SurvGY. <br /> <br />In llay 1'1l}.l an agrGeI:lCnt IJas concluded with the U. S. Public <br />Health Serviea for a ceoperative study ef strem" pollution in the <br />Basin. It is antieipatoc that both the Coloredo State Departnent of <br />Hoalth and t.ho City ()f Denver will participatG. in this cooperation. <br />Cests te JunG .10 for this Basin otudy HorG ~53,614. <br /> <br />KANSAS RIVER BASIN(3) <br /> <br />Program ~)325.000: Thin aUocation Hac made at thc bcElinninr; of <br />tile fiscal year for the preparation of a comprGhensivo rGport of thG <br />entire ~ansas River Basin. <br /> <br />Monthly rc;ports duri~G the ;rear ;nade little reference to the <br />Gntirc; Basin. It hao boon oubdivided into tho Smok)r Hill and Repub- <br />lican Rivcr Sub-basins and the usual sorics of appendb:es are boing <br />proparcd for Gach of thooa oub-basins. Presurnabl:', tho ovorall Basin <br />repert 11111 bo finally propared fron thG ::ll1b-basin reports. The prep- <br />aratio;), raviOli, and fi:lal reproduction of the ;1Unerous aP.'landixes <br />a9pcar to hava occupied noot of the force workinc on t~is study <br />thro\lchout tho year. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />In October sub-basin rc.)orts l~ore r~ported to De due on January 1, <br />194~ end in Fcbruarr the dat; was set for-Juno 1940. At tho ond of tho <br />fiscal )'ear the Smol~ Hill Sub-basin report uas stated to be 90 percent <br />conpletG and the r.cpublican Rivor Sub-basin report 70 percent complote. <br />The .nntire i,ansas River re.,Jort is n011 schedulod for eO::1plotion ':;y <br />June 1949. Costs 1-'01'0 <)285,016 on June 30, 1948. <br /> <br />57 <br />