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

Updating of the 1960 Conservation Needs Inventory was completed during
the year and will be available in summary form for each state in the
near future. The inventory provides information concerning land under
conservation treatment as well as future treatment needs.

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Technical Action Panels representing USDA agencies have:been organized
in every county. These panels provide information about Federal
Programs that can be used to develop water supplies and needed community
water facilities, provide outdoor recreation, carry out conservation
and beautification and other projects to strengthen the rural community.

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The approval procedures contained in the Small Watershed Act (Public
Law 566) continue to be questioned by the Executive Branch of Govern-
ment. Only those projects can be appro~ed in which the Federal con-
tribution to construction is less than $250,000 and that do not require
the concurrence of Congressional Committees. With this limitation
being imposed only the "Mott" project in Hetcinger County, North Dakota,
has been approved for operations during the year.

Applications for Resource Conservation and Development projects were
received from the "North Dakota First" covering Grant, Sioux, Morton,
Oliver and Mercer Counties. Applications for the "Black Hills"
project in South Dakota and Wyoming and the "Bear Tooth" project in
Montana were amended to include additional land. In September 196B,
the "Black Hills" project ",as auchorized tor detailed planning
assistance. An application was being prepared'for the "Nebraska
Panhandle" project during the year';

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During Fiscal Year 1968, initial construction was started on Chatfield
Dam in Colorado; Cottonwood Dam in South Dakota; and the local flood
control project at Great Falls, Montana. Land acquiaition was
initiated for the Pipestem Dam project in North Dakota.

Survey reports for the Blue River in Kansas and Missouri, and the
Nishnabotna River in Iowa were completed and forwarded to the Chief
of Engineers during Fiscal Year 1968.

Flood damages during Fiscal Year 1968 amounted to $2,540,000. Damages
prevented by the main stern reservoirs amounted to $8,124,000, and by
local flood control projects Missouri River levee systems tributary
reservoirs $4,903,000. If all authorized flood control projects had
been in place an additional $973,000 of damages would have been prevented.

An Environmental Science Service Administration (ESSA) Weather Bureau
Hydrometeorological Report, a study to determine the probable maximum
precipitation for the Chatfield Dam site, has been completed and is
now in the process of being printed.

The ESSA Coast and Geodetic Survey completed plans and started a survey
in the Denver area to provide a basis for determining possible land

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