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<br /> <br />statewide programs recommended for Colorado, Kansas, and <br />Nebraska, also contained in chapter 2. <br /> <br />In order to advance water resources planning in Colorado, <br />the recommended plan calls for the Water and Power Resources <br />Service to provide assistance to the State of Colorado in <br />completing its State water plan (beginning in FY 1982). Water <br />planning in the State of Kansas will benefit from the Water and <br />Power's water management studies in the Solomon and Republican <br />River Basins. The recommendation for continuing the Water and <br />Power Resources Service study in the Republican River Basin <br />should contribute to Nebraska's planning and review process. <br /> <br />A number of projects and programs are recommended to deal <br />with flooding problems in the Kansas Subbasin. The plan contains <br />33 Soil Conservation Service small watershed projects, 23 in <br />Kansas and 10 in Nebraska. Also, it is recommended that the <br />Corps of Engineers complete its study of flooding in the Stranger <br />Creek Basin and construct local flood control works at Onaga Dam <br />and Reservoir on Vermillion Creek in eastern Kansas. <br /> <br />Development of irrigated agriculture is a high priority in <br />the Kansas Subbasin States. The plan recommends a combination of <br />system rehabilitation, new project development, and feasibility <br />studies to enhance irrigation. The Water and Power Resources <br />Service is called upon to complete the Bostwick Division in <br />Kansas and the Frenchman-Cambridge Division in Nebraska. <br />Further, the plan recommends that the Service study the <br />feasibility of a number of irrigation projects including the <br />Little Blue Unit, Nebraskal Glen Elder Unit, Kansasl and Scandia <br />Unit, Kansas. A feasibility study is recommended to investigate <br />diversion of Platte River flows into the Little Blue River Basin <br />in Nebraska to be stored and utilized for irrigation of cropland. <br /> <br />In an attempt to deal with the problem of rapidly declining <br />ground-water levels in Kansas' Ogallala aquifer, the plan <br />recommends that a pilot recharge project be initiated by the <br />Kansas Water Resources Board and local ground water management <br />districts. The plan also calls for State and local <br />investigations of irrigation feasibility utilizing surplus water <br />in Bonny Reservoir, an existing Federal impoundment on the South <br />Fork Republican River in Colorado. <br /> <br />To address the problems of erosion and sedimentation in <br />northeastern Kansas the plan recommends that the Soil <br />Conservation Service conduct the proposed "Northeast Kansas Water <br /> <br />-212- <br />