WSP08199

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC -- Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 6/1/1977
• Title: Specific Problem Analysis Summary Report - 1975 National Assessment of Water and Related Land Resources - Part 1 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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This general summary, both narrative and statistical, outlines the
formal conclusions and recommendations which will be incorporated
in the National Assessment report.

Funds for performing the Assessment work in the Arkansas-White-
Red Region have been furnished to the Regional Sponsor by the Water
Resources Council through a Memorandum of Agreement approved April 18,
1975, and by three supplemental agreements approved November 19, 1975,
March 29, 1976, and February 9, 1977. The funds have been distributed
to the eight member States through agreements between the States, the
Federal Agencies, and the Regional Study Director's office as agreed to
by AWRBIAC. The financial accounting of the obligation and expenditures
of the assessment funds has been maintained by the Regional Finance
Officer of the Bureau of Reclamation, Amarillo, Texas.

The Regional Sponsor has delegated performance of the assessment
work to its Comprehensive Planning Committee, formerly the Ad Hoc
Assessment Committee, working through a Regional Study Director as
provided in the Memorandum of Agreement. The actual work has been
performed largely by representatives of the eight States of the Region
and the Regional Study Director, with representatives of the Federal
agencies offering data, suggestions, counseling, and reviewing report
drafts. But collectively, however, the Comprehensive Planning Committee
on behalf of the whole Committee reviews and approves the reports which
are submitted to WRC as fulfillment of the Memorandum of Agreement.
This process, coupled with reviews by public participants selected by
the States, hopefully portrays a State-Regional point of view.

Seven aggregated sub-areas (ASA's) have been defined by WRC for
the AWR Region. These ASA's are identified by county lines and encom-
pass a total area of 242,000 square miles in the eight states of Arkansas,
Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas,
as shown on plate I. In contrast the drainage area totals 265,000
square miles, excluding portions of the drsinage areas of the Arkansas-
White-Red rivers which have been included by WRC in the Lower Mississippi
Region. The total drainage srea of these three rivers is 282,000 square
miles.

With exception of the White River, which drains part of the Ozark
Platesu in the northeast portion of the Region, the rivers originate
on eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains or on the High Plains of Colorado,
New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The high plains of Kansas,
Oklahoma, and Texas, and the central lowlands of Missouri, Arkansas, and
Louisiana produce a significant share of the Nation's livestock, grains.
petroleum and gas.

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