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Issues identified in the Powder/Tongue River Basin
Category Issues Activities/Projects
Public Education (cont.) - Regulatory agency statute development
- Public regulatory contribution
- Fact vs. fiction
- NEPA process public input
- Funding
- Aquifer storage and retrieval (ASR) programs
Water Development - Rehab of existing conveyance systems (old ditches) Middle Fork Watershed Study
highest and best use priorities
- Municipal SAWS JPB, Lake DeSmet, Dayton, Ranchester,
Prairie Dog Watershed Study, Three Horses Watershed Study
- Agriculture
- Pipeline distribution stock water systems
- extreme difficulty in getting dams permitted
- Improved irrigation efficiency
- Minimum flows and flushing flows
below dams (present ones and future development)
- Fish loss to diversion ditches
- Plan, plan, plan
- Privatized public use systems
- Pre-compact projects
- New technologies and new uses
- Funding
Related Land Issues - Noxious weeds
- Streamback erosion
- Best management practices in riparian areas
- Wellhead protection
- Watershed management for water yield
- Land ownership patterns
- Restoration/reclamation/rehabilitation
- Recreational overgrazing
Water Quantity - Recharge area protection
- Baseline data collection - groundwater and surface water
- Water quantity and occurrence
- Interbasin transfers and flows
- Recharge areas defined recharges
- Reinjection programs