Report card

Water supply

Supply abundant, clean water to our farms, communities and businesses

Flood Control

Provide reliable flood control and risk reduction

Economy

Support local, state and national economies

Ecosystems

Support and enhance healthy and productive ecosystems

Recreation

Create world class recreational opportunities

Transportation

Serve as the nation’s most valuable river transportation corridor

Six Broad Goals for Watershed

Built in the Basins

The Mississippi River Watershed covers all or part of 2 Canadian provinces and 31 states. More than half the goods and services consumed by U.S. citizens are produced with water that flows through this great watershed.

∗Upper Mississippi River Basin Association (UMBRA) ∗Ingram Barge -- Dan Mecklenborg ∗State of Illinois EPA Water Office ∗National Park Service Mississippi National River & Recreation Area ∗The Nature Conservancy – NA Freshwater, Upper Mississippi River program ∗Iowa Soybean Association – Roger Wolf

Upper Mississippi River Basin

∗ Ohio River Basin Alliance ∗ ORSANCO ∗ USACE –Nashville, Louisville ∗ Tennessee Valley Authority ∗ The Nature Conservancy–

Ohio & Tennessee Chapters, Great Rivers Partnership

Ohio River Basin

* Lower Mississippi River Conservation Commission ∗America’s Wetland Foundation ∗The Nature Conservancy - North American Freshwater program, Ohio Chapter, Tennessee Chapter ∗Ingram Barge ∗USACE ∗AECOM - Steve Mathies

Lower Mississippi River Basin

∗USACE – Col. Pratt (Tulsa), Col. Paul (Little Rock) ∗Oklahoma Water Resources Board ∗Texas Water Development Board ∗Red River Valley Association ∗State of Kansas Water Office ∗The Nature Conservancy - Oklahoma North Chapter

Arkansas River & Red River

∗MRRIC members ∗MORAST ∗State of Kansas Water Office ∗USACE NWD ∗The Nature Conservancy - Nebraska Chapter & Western Dakotas program ∗State of Wyoming Engineer’s office – Sue Lowry ∗AWI Steering committee – Dru Buntin

Missouri River Basin

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FOUR – BREADTH The third thing - The report card needed to be built and developed with strong input from a broad range of experts and stakeholders knowledgeable of the issues AND where to find the data in each basin.   This would not a project developed in isolation with only a few people.

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In the last 54 weeks, we have covered a lot of ground Moline Cincinatti Nashville Memphis Tulsa

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Rapid City Arlington Kansas City Many webinars   Tried to develop improvement Learned what worked well in one basin and take that to the next workshop  

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more than 300 active participants in workshops, meetings, webinars specifically about the developing the report card people from 23 states and DC more than 1000 contacted and sought feedback

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Where did they come from Different workshops, different flavors more feds, more states More than 95 different organizations, businesses and agencies here

Organizations ∗Association State of Floodplain Managers ∗Audubon Louisiana/National Audubon Society ∗Big Creek Middle Smokey Hill River Watersheds ∗Big River Coalition ∗Cheney Lake Watershed, Inc. ∗Delta Wildlife Inc. ∗Ducks Unlimited ∗EDF – Environmental Defense Fund ∗Electric Power Research Institute ∗Grand Lake O' the Cherokees Watershed Alliance Foundation ∗Izaak Walton League of America (UMR, MO) ∗Lake Texoma Association ∗Missouri Coalition for the Environment ∗Missouri River Navigation Caucus & Pallid Sturgeon Recovery Working Group ∗Missouri Valley Waterfowlers Association ∗Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District ∗National Waterways Conference ∗Nebraska Wildlife Federation ∗North Dakota Water Users Association ∗Ohio River Foundation ∗Ouachita River Valley Association ∗Platte River Recovery Implementation Program ∗Red River Valley Association ∗Restore or Retreat, Inc. ∗State Association of Kansas Watersheds ∗The Nature Conservancy ∗Upper Mississippi, Illinois & Missouri Rivers Association ∗Waurika Master Conservancy District

Participant Affiliations

Academic institutions ∗ University of Arkansas Water Resources Center ∗ University of Iowa - Iowa Flood Center ∗ Iowa State University ∗ Kansas State University ∗ Marshall University ∗ Mississippi State University ∗ National Great Rivers Research & Education Center ∗ Northern Kentucky University ∗ Ohio University OHRB Consortium for Research &

Education ∗ Oklahoma State Water Resources Center ∗ Thomas More College ∗ Tulane University, Institute on Water Resources Law &

Policy ∗ Texas A&M Transportation Institute ∗ University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff ∗ University of Queensland, Australia ∗ University of Maryland - IAN ∗ University of Missouri ∗ University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Freight

Infrastructure Research & Education

Participant Affiliations, cont’d

Federal Agencies/Initiatives

∗ USDA ∗ USF&WS ∗ USGS ∗ EPA ∗ CEQ ∗ USACE

Divisions - MVD/MRC - LRD

Districts - Vicksburg - Tulsa - Rock Island - Little Rock - Huntington - Memphis - Louisville

∗ MRRIC (leader) ∗ Oak Ridge National Lab

Local Governments ∗ Cherokee County Health

Department ∗ City of Moline, IL ∗ Metropolitan Water Reclamation,

District of Greater Chicago ∗ OK Municipal League ∗ Tulsa Port of Catoosa, OK ∗ City of Dubuque, IA

State Governments

∗AR Game & Fish Commission ∗IA Dept. of Transportation ∗IL EPA Division of Public Water Supplies ∗IL Dept. of Transportation-District ∗Kansas Dept. of Health & Environment ∗Kansas Water Office ∗KY Assn. of Mitigation Managers ∗KY Dept. for Environmental Protection, Water Quality Branch ∗KY Division of Water ∗LA Dept. of Enviro Quality, Office of Enviro Services ∗MS Dept. of Environmental Quality, Office of Pollution Control ∗MT Department of Natural Resources and Conservation ∗ND State Water Commission ∗NE DNR ∗OH Dept. of Natural Resources ∗OK Dept. of Ag, Food and Forestry ∗OK Dept. of Environmental Quality ∗OK Dept. of Mines ∗OK Dept. of Transportation, Waterways Branch ∗OK Water Resources Board ∗SD Dept. of Environmental Natural Resources ∗SD Game, Fish and Parks ∗TN Wildlife Resources Agency ∗TX Commission on Environmental Quality ∗TX Water Development Board ∗WV DEP ∗WY State Engineer’s Office Water Resources Center

Private Organizations/Businesses

∗ AECOM ∗ American Electric Power ∗ Anderson Tully Company ∗ Battelle ∗ Biohabitats ∗ Caterpillar, Inc. ∗ Crounse Corporation ∗ Duke Energy ∗ Fox Consulting Group LLC ∗ Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks ∗ Headwaters Corporation ∗ Houston Engineering Inc. ∗ Ingram Barge Marine Group ∗ Jones Walker ∗ Klingner & Associates, P.C. ∗ Marathon Petroleum Company ∗ MS River Corridor-Tennessee ∗ National Corn Growers Association ∗ National Waterways Conference ∗ OK Cattlemen's Association ∗ SIMPCO ∗ Stanley Consultants ∗ Stantec Consulting

Participant Affiliations, cont’d

By State – 23 + D.C.

∗Arkansas 5 ∗Iowa 8 ∗Illinois 20 ∗Indiana 1 ∗Kansas 11 ∗Kentucky 12 ∗Louisiana 7 ∗Minnesota 4 ∗Missouri 6 ∗Mississippi 13 ∗Montana 1 ∗No. Dakota 3 ∗No. Carolina 1 ∗Nebraska 7 ∗Ohio 18 ∗Oklahoma 23 ∗South Dakota 4 ∗Tennessee 26 ∗Texas 3 ∗Virginia 2 ∗Wisconsin 7 ∗West Virginia 3 ∗Wyoming 1

A work in progress