Upper Mississippi River Source Water Protection Initiative
Upper Mississippi River Source Water Protection Initiative

Author: Saint Cloud (Minn.). Public Utilities Department

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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The Upper Mississippi River Source Water Protection Initiative is intended to protect the Mississippi River and associated shallow sand and gravel aquifers from the river's headwaters to the Twin Cities. These resources collectively provide the public water supply for nearly one-third of Minnesota's residents. By addressing the river and shallow aquifers as an interconnected hydrologic system, this project establishes the framework to collaboratively develop and implement source water protection strategies for more than thirty communities on a basin-wide scale.

Water Resources Planning for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway
Water Resources Planning for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2005-12-18

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 0309099455

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently completed its feasibility study for the Upper Mississippi River-Ilinois Waterway, which was one of the agency's longest and most complicated studies in its history. The first two reports from this WSTB committee reviewed analytical aspects of the Corps feasibility study. Water Resources Planning for the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway considers the broader issue of managing the multiple resources of the Upper Mississippi River and Illinois Waterway, especially with regard to several, recently-issued NRC reports on Corps of Engineers planning procedures. The report finds that a key issue regarding planning decisions on these river systems is the ambiguity related to several different pieces of legislation and acts that govern river management, and thus recommends that the administration and Congress clarify the federal intent for managing this river and waterway system. The report recommends an independent, retrospective reivew of the experience with a federal inter-agency Principals Group, which was convened to provide guidance to the Corps study. It is also recommended that the Corps strive to incorporate flexible, adaptive management principles through its entire water planning program, including operations of the lock and dam system.

Mississippi River Water Quality and Interstate Collaboration
Mississippi River Water Quality and Interstate Collaboration

Author: National Research Council

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2014-08-06

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0309304873

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Summary of a Workshop on Mississippi River Water Quality Science and Interstate Collaboration summarizes presentations and discussions of Mississippi River and basin water quality management, monitoring, and evaluation programs that took place at a workshop that was held in St. Louis on November 18-19, 2013. The workshop examined a wide array of challenges and progress in water quality monitoring and evaluation in states along the Mississippi River corridor, and provided a forum for experts from U.S. federal agencies, the Mississippi River states, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to share and compare monitoring and evaluation experiences from their respective organizations.