WSP07112

• File Number: 8410.350
• Description: Basin Multistate Organizations - Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/1968
• Author: MBIAC
• Title: MBIAC Annual Progress Report - Fiscal Year 1968
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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pollution load, and the conservative pollution load. The basic
objectives of the study, he said, have been met. The models, as
now conceived, do satisfactorily reproduce the hydrologic response
in the river systems. The nonconservative model acc'ounts for the
growth and decay of the biochemical oxygen demands throughout the
system. The conservative model provides results cOI1)parable with
field observation. The models can be used effectively to consider
problems of defining the nature and scope of the desired basic data
programs, of evaluating the degree of treatment needed to fulfill a
given water quality standard, evaluation of potential effect of both
quality and quantity of upstream diversions and other water develop-
ment programs and a determination of the reservoir operation program
which will best minimize the concentration of conservative pollutants.

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Design of U. S. Department of Agriculture's Analytical Model Used for
Economic Analysis of Soil and Water Resources

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Mr. John Putman, Agricultural Economist of the Natural Resources
Economics Division of the Department of Agriculture,discussed the
Missouri Basin Economic Model. He advised the Committee the Economic
Research Service was responsible, in the Missouri River Basin Framework
Study, for an inventory and analysis of the agricultural economy, an
inventory of the agricultural resource base for agriculture production,
and projections of agricultural production at levels consistent with
projected levels of national economic activity.

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In order to accomplish these aims, a generalized analytical system
has been developed by the Economic Research Service. It was necessary
to computerize the system because of the complexities, the economic
and physical factors, and the many data elements involved. On the
input side is a program which is essentially a bookkeeping system to
make simple budget computations, arrange data, and store it in a manner
readily adaptable to linear programming. This linear programming model
based on minimum cost concepts is used for simulating mathematically
farmers I decisions wi th respect to land use when certain levels of
demand for food and fiber are assumed. In the operation of the math-
ematical model, the cropping pattern is selected that will minimize
the cost to achieve this level of production within the restraints
likely to confront farmers.

The information derived by this system has many applications
other than Type I river basin surveys. It can serve Type II or Type IV
or other surveys; it can be used to measure the capacity of the agri-
culture resources within designated framc,vorks of assumption and
finally it can evaluate the implications of alternative courses of
action available to agriculture.

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