The Role of Meteorology in Projects of the Corps of Engineers in the Missouri River Basin *

1950 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 238-243
Author(s):  
Elmo W. McClendon
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Water Control ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Water Uses

The comprehensive plan for the development of water resources of the Missouri River Basin provides for flood control, navigation, electric power generation, irrigation, and other miscellaneous water uses. Of these features the Corps of Engineers is primarily responsible for flood control and for river and harbor developments in the interest of navigation. In the planning, construction, and operation of water control projects to fulfill these primary responsibilities, meteorology plays a very definite and important role. Meteorology as an art touches the lives of all—as an applied science it affects the plans and actions of numerous organizations which are vitally concerned with the predictability of weather, its variation and extremes. The latter is particularly true in the Corps of Engineers in which weather is one of the basic factors to be considered in the planning, construction, and operation of river development projects.

Balancing Fisheries Management and Water Uses for Impounded River Systems

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
The United States ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Army Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Earthen Dams ◽  
Water Uses

<em>Abstract</em>.—As authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944, the Army Corps of Engineers operates six large earthen dams in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska on the main stem of the Missouri River. The six reservoirs make up the largest reservoir system in the United States and are used for flood control, navigation, irrigation, hydropower, water supply and water quality, recreation, and fish and wildlife.

Institutional evolution of Missouri river management

Water Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Hearne ◽  
Tony Prato
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Army Corps ◽  
Institutional Evolution ◽  
Army Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Us

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America and flows from the semi-arid western states to the relatively moist Midwest. An integrated system of large reservoirs, constructed in the mid-20th century, provides important water storage, hydroelectricity and flood control benefits. This system has been managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers which has traditionally followed its original mandate to support navigation and flood control. As water uses and societal values have evolved, the management of the river has slowly evolved, and the Army Corps of Engineers has adopted adaptive management to incorporate biological uncertainties into its decision-making. Other evolution, including the incorporation of economic incentives into water management, has failed to occur.

The Booger Bottom Mound: A Forsyth Period Site in Hall County, Georgia

1952 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Caldwell ◽  
Charles E. Thompson ◽  
Sheila K. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Corps Of Engineers ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Usual Procedure ◽  
Chattahoochee River

The corps of engineers is currently building a power and flood control dam near the little town of Buford on the upper Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia. This is one of several such dams under way in the State, and in accordance with the usual procedure the Smithsonian River Basin Surveys made a routine archaeological reconnaissance of the impoundment area from November 15, 1950 to April 7, 1951. During the survey the writers came upon a large prehistoric mound (9HL64) not previously reported.We spent three weeks investigating the structure to determine if its eventual flooding in the Buford impoundment would constitute an important loss of archaeological data. The conclusion reached was that a full scale excavation should be made before the site is inundated sometime in 1954 or 1955.

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