WSP06216

• 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 I - Chapters I-VI
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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differed markedly from the earlier single-purpose developments. project

purposes include irrigation water supply, flood control, hydroelectric power

generation, navigation, recreation, fish and wildlife enhancement, and

industrial water supply.
Perhaps the most prominent multipurpose projects in the basin are the six

major Missouri River main-stem reservoirs--Fort Peck, Sakakawea, Oahe, Sharpe,

Francis Case, and Lewis and Clark. With the exception of Fort Peck Reservoir,

these large projects were constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers under the

pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, originally adopted by the Congress in 1944.

The Corps was authorized to construct Fort Peck Reservoir in 1933. Each of

these projects serves most or all of the purposes listed above. In addition,

other large multipurpose projects have been or are being built by the Corps of
Engineers and the Water and power Resources Service in every subbasin in the

Missouri Basin. Among these are Canyon Ferry in the Upper Missouri Subbasin;

Boysen and Yellowtail in the Yellowstone; Shadehill and Keyhole in the Western
Dakotas; Jamestown in the Eastern Dakotas; seminoe and Glendo in the

Platte-Niobrara; Smithville in the Middle Missouri; Tuttle Creek and Milford in

the Kansas; and Stockton and Harry S. Truman in the Lower Missouri.

To meet land conservation and management needs, thousands of smaller

reservoirs and farm ponds have been installed by the Soil Conservation Service,

States, local soil conservation districts, and private individuals. These

impoundments provide rural domestic, stock, and irrigation water supply,

control sediment and rural flooding, and often provide municipal supply and

control urban flooding. Other measures aid in the control of erosion and

alleviate drainage problems.

A recent major development in the plains areas of the basin is the advent

of center pivot irrigation. Center pivot units use ground water almost

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