Water Resources Directory/USA/History

History of water resources planning
Overview of the Harvard Water Program
 * Is It Time to Resurrect the Harvard Water Program? by Martin A. Reuss PhD, Senior Historian, Office of History, Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, VA., in: ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, September 2003, Vol. 129 Issue 5, p357-360.


 * Source: Planning Manual for USACE, by Charles E. Yoe (1996, pp. 31-48)


 * History/ of multipurpose planning

List of Federal laws with planning procedures requirements:
 * (b/c) indicates inclusion of benefit/cost analysis guidelines.


 * 1808 - Gallatin Report to US Congress (mp) History
 * Multiple objective - political unity, national defense, economic development of West
 * Multiple purpose - waterways, canals, roads
 * 1917 - Flood Control Act
 * 1926 - 308 reports for multiple purpose river basin planning studies History
 * 1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act
 * 1934 - Fish & Wildlife Coordination Act (b/c)
 * 1936 - Federal Flood Control Act (b/c)
 * 1944 - Flood Control Act ("municipal and industrial water supply becomes a full project purpose for USACE reservoirs,
 * as does recreation")History
 * 1950 - “Green Book” (b/c)
 * 1962 - U.S. Senate Document 97 (b/c and mp) ("river basins the preferred planning area; multipurpose planning to be used" History}
 * 1965 - Water Resources Planning Act (b/c)
 * Level B river basin planning studies
 * State water plans guidance
 * 1969 - “Blue Book” (b/c)
 * 1972 - U.S. National Water Commission's Panel on Water Resources Planning
 * 1973 - Principles & Standards (b/c, mp) ("NEPA integrated into multipurpose planning")History
 * 1983 - Principles & Guidelines (b/c)

Reviews of Federal Water Resources Planning Procedures
 * 1994 - Galloway Report (Interagency Floodplain Management Review Committee report, directed by Dr. Gerald E. Galloway, Jr.)
 * 1999 - National Research Council
 * 2002 - National Research Council's review of USACE planning procedures

References
 * "An Analysis of Federal Water Resource Planning and Evaluation Procedures" by Gunter Schramm and R.E Burt Jr., June 1970 (Univ of Michigan)
 * Burges, S. (1979). “Water Resources Planning in the U.S.A.: 1776-1976.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 105(1):91-112. American Society of Civil Engineers.
 * Water Resources Update, 2000, Universities Council on Water Resources

History of simulation models

 * "In 1953, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) developed a simulation model for the study of six reservoirs on the Missouri River."(Palmer, p.4)