Title:
Savannah River Basin Study - Reassessment of Basin Needs and Priorities
Savannah River Basin Study - Reassessment of Basin Needs and Priorities
| dc.contributor.author | Crosby, Leroy G. | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Planning Division | |
| dc.contributor.editor | Hatcher, Kathryn J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-12-10T21:42:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-12-10T21:42:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the 1991 Georgia Water Resources Conference, March 19-20, 1991, Athens, Georgia. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The Savannah District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has recently completed an assessment of the water-related resources needs of the Savannah River Basin (Corps of Engineers, 1990). This paper discusses the needs that were examined. It then discusses possible management techniques that could be applied by the Corps in the management of its multipurpose projects. Since this study was reconnaissance in nature, the major conclusion and recommendation was that a comprehensive survey should be conducted on how to meet various needs through reallocating portions of storage in the multipurpose projects. Throughout the past 100 years, the Corps of Engineers has conducted a number of studies on the water resources needs of the Savannah River Basin. In February 1987, the Corps of Engineers prepared a reconnaissance level report (Corps of Engineers, 1987), assessing the need for reallocation of storage at the three Federal reservoirs--J. Strom Thurmond, Richard B. Russell, and Hartwell. At that time, there was no identified need for specific reallocation studies. The successive droughts of the eighties have since prompted new concerns over the allocated storage. Additional water supply requests, not anticipated in the earlier study, have occurred. The continued, drought-induced drawdown prompted concerns about providing more stable pool levels for recreation. Furthermore, the prolonged nature of this drought cycle has caused heightened concerns over water quality in the lower Savannah River. Hydropower customers are concerned over the curtailment of power production to accommodate what, they feel, are unauthorized or nonpaying purposes. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. | en |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | This book was published by the Institute of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1984 (P.L. 98242). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0-935835-02-4 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31363 | |
| dc.language | en_US | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en |
| dc.publisher.original | Institute of Natural Resources | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GWRI1991. Savannah River Basin Topics | en |
| dc.subject | Water resources management | en |
| dc.subject | Savannah River Basin | en |
| dc.subject | Water assessment | en |
| dc.subject | Water management techniques | en |
| dc.title | Savannah River Basin Study - Reassessment of Basin Needs and Priorities | en |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Water Resources Institute | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Engineering | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Georgia Water Resources Conference | |
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