Abstract |
The purpose of the study was to determine the present and future needs and value of municipal and industrial water supply and storage for water quality control on the Wapsipinicon River in the reaches affected by the proposed Central City Reservoir. This includes parts of the following Iowa counties: Clinton, Scott, Cedar, Jones, Linn, Delaware, Buchanan, Blackhawk, Bremer, Fayette, Chickasaw, Floyd, Howard, and Mitchell and small parts of Dodge and Olmsted counties in Minnesota. The water requiremtnts, and the means and benefits (both tangible and intangible) of meeting those requirements have been investigated. The scope of the study covers water storage needs during a one-hundred year study period, 1960 to 2060. (Author) |