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<br />structure, through the Old Riv~r diversion channel and the Red River into the <br />Atchafalaya River. Water would be pi eked up at the Wax Lake outlet on the <br />Atchafalaya Riv~r near Morgan City, Louisiana. A system of over 1,400 miles <br />of canals and about 71 pumping plants would deliver an average of about 5.8 <br />mi 11 i on acre-feet per year to the termi nal storage reservoi rs on the Hi gh <br />Plains of Texas and New ~exico. The energy required for this plan would be <br />the equivalent of over 50 billion KWH annually. The current water transfer <br />studies for the High Plains - Ogallala Aquifer Study did not consider transfer <br />of water directly from the lower Mississippi River. The HPSC interpreted the <br />Congress i ona 1 Authori zati on (Sec. 193, PL 94-587) to excl ude the lower <br />Mississippi River as a direct source point. However, the current transfer <br />study did consider source streams which are tributary to the Mississippi River <br />as they are the most immediate sources to the High Plains area of sufficient <br />size to provide the potential quantity of water needed to solve the Ogallala <br />Aquifer depletion problem. <br /> <br />In 1976 Stephens consultant Services, Inc., prepared HAn Assessment of Surface <br />Water Supplies of Arkansas--With Computations of Surplus Supplies and a Concep- <br />tual Plan for Import to Texas." Their recommended transfer plan included <br />delivery of nearly 6 million acre-feet of wat~r' d(lI-nial1y from the Hhite Rive!"~ <br />Arkansas River, Ouachita River, and Millwood Reservoir on the Little River to <br />Wri ght Patma n Lake nea r Texa rkana on the 5u 1 phu r Ri ve r, Texa s. From Wri ght <br />Patman Lake, water would be pumped westward to the High Plains area of Texas <br />and New ~exico along the general route of the Trans-Texas Canal as presented <br />in the 1968 Texas Water Plan. This route would generally follow the drainage <br />divide bet\~een the Red and Trinity Rivers and further west, the Red and Brazos <br />Rivers. The plan was studied by the Fort Worth District (Route 3). <br /> <br />16 <br />