WSP07246

• File Number: 8273.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agency Reports - BOR
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1978
• Title: Reject Stream Replacement Study - Status Report Janaury 1978
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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be limited to potential sources within the States of Arizona, California,

Colorado, New Mexico, and those portions of Nevada, Utah, and

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w Wyoming which are within the natural drainage basin of the Colorado
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"Feasible measures," unfortunately, is a highly relative concepti

what may be feasible to some may be entirely infeasible to others.

The consequence of this problem, then, is that virtually every possi-

bility which can be conceived, regardless of its "feasibility" to those

investigating it, must be considered, if only at least until it can be

proven infeasible. The Bureau's approach to this problem follows the

scientific method. That is, the problem is defined, alternatives are

identified, necessary data are collected and analyzed, the alternatives

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are evaluated, and a solution is selected. However, just because the

process can be described simply does not imply that the process itself

is simple. Current Bureau planning techniques are based on princi-

pies and standards established by the United States Water Resources

Council, an independent executive agency. These standards present a

comprehensive and complex planning procedure requiring concerted

effort and progressive techniques.

In response to those increasingly complex planning procedures,

planning organizations have developed the concept of multidisciplinary

planning teams. The team approach can provide a wide spectrum of

knowledge and experience to the planning process.

At the outset of this study a multidisciplinary team of Bureau

personnel was formed. Disciplines represented on the team included

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economics, hydraulic engineering, fish biology, hydrology, geology,

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