Authorized and Operating Purposes of Corps of Engineers Reservoirs

July 1992 Revised: November 1994 Approved for Public Release. Distribution Unlimited. PR-19

US Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center

Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8/98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39-18

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2. REPORT TYPE Project Report

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4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Authorized and Operating Purposes of Corps of Engineers Reservoirs

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5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER

6. AUTHOR(S) William K. Johnson, Richard J. DiBuono

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7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources Hydrologic Engineering Center (HEC) 609 Second Street Davis, CA 95616-4687

8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER PR-19

10. SPONSOR/ MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S) 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) US Army Corps of Engineers Hydraulics & Hydrology Branch (CECW-EH-W) 20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20314-1000

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12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

14. ABSTRACT Section 311 of the Water Resources Development Act of 1990 (PL 101-640) directs the Secretary of the Army to "…conduct a study of the operations of reservoir projects which are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary -- (1) to identify the purposes for which each such project is authorized; and (2) to identify the purposes for which each such project is being operated." This report presents the information requested by the law. For each reservoir, information is provided about the purposes for which it is authorized, the laws granting authority, and the purposes for which water is being controlled by the Corps of Engineers. 15. SUBJECT TERMS Corps of Engineers, operating, reservoirs, dam reservoir project, lock and dam, water control management, water control plan, Section 7, flood control, storage space, navigation, river level, hydroelectric power, irrigation, water supply, water quality, recreation, operating purposes, authorized purposes, public laws 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON a. REPORT U

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Authorized and Operating Purposes of Corps of Engineers Reservoirs July 1992 Revised: November 1994 Prepared for: US Army Corps of Engineers Hydraulics & Hydrology Branch (CECW-EH-W) 20 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20314-1000 Prepared by: US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources Hydrologic Engineering Center 609 Second Street Davis, CA 95616 (530) 756-1104 (530) 756-8250 FAX www.hec.usace.army.mil PR-19

First Printing, July 1992 Second Printing (with revisions), November 1994

Cover: Pine Flat Lake and Kings River, California Photograph by Arnold Lee