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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(1) When water resources planning agencies base their planning on

different estimates of water use and availability it becomes almost

impossible to plan toward a common objective.

(2) The basinwide effects of implementing alternative Federal reserved and

Indian water rights policies cannot be properly evaluated.

(3) Cumulative downstream effects of implementing various State water

plans and the MRBC comprehensive, coordinated, joint plan cannot

accurately be estimated.

(4) Downstream impacts of reserving differing amounts of water to an
upstream area for interstate compact purposes, or serving minimum

flows for recreation, fish and wildlife, or other purposes cannot be

assessed.

(5) State-Federal agreement cannot be reached on water withdrawal and

consumptive-use rates for irrigation and the amount of irrigated land

in the basin.
The draft of the Missouri River Basin Hydrology Study report is scheduled
for completion by September 30, 1982. Estimated study costs total $2.3 million
of which $1.7 million will be federally funded and $579,000 will be provided as
in~kind service from the States.
Management of the study is with the Missouri River Basin Commission's

study director and staff, and the study management group. Study management

group members are representatives from the Federal Departments of the Interior,

Army, Agriculture, and the States of Colorado, and Missouri. The Vice Chairman

of the Commission serves as an ex-officio member of the management group.

Work tasks will be assigned to various work groups and consultants. Work

group activities are outlined in Chapter IV of this plan of study.