WSP07475

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - River Basin General Publications - Missouri River
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 3/1/1980
• Author: MRBC
• Title: Plan of Study - Missouri River Basin Hydrology Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CHAPTER III

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STODY PROCESS

General Concepts

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The management group selected a combination of computer programs to meet

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the objectives of this study. The hydrologic accounting system to be developed

will integrate the Corps of Engineers main stem and Kansas River operation

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models with the programs used by the Water and Power Resources Service (WPRS)

in conducting streamflow depletion studies in the Upper Missouri River Basin.

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In addition, a query system will be developed to allow analysis of effects on

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basin water availability at selected nodal points given various future water

management alternatives that, if implemented, would result in streamflow

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depletion.

The general concepts behind this selection included the following:

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(1) the system should be computerized;

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(2) the system should be flexible to accommodate emerging problems
and changing priorities as well as accommodate new data as it
becomes available;

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(3) basic hydrologic units are to be the WRC accounting units;

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(4) because of the importance of agriculture to the basin, the
amount of irrigated land within the basin is of particular
interest~

(5) the system should be easily displayed;

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(6) the system should be able to be queried to answer questions
of interest; and

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(7) the system should utilize to the maximum extent practicable
existing hydrologic accounting systems now being utilized in the
basin.

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Figure 4 shows the process for conducting the study. This process

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includes seven major steps:

Step I--Defining the system in terms of aerial extent, type of system, and

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