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Show Projected program Agency * Primary purposes of physical features 2 TTNDEB CONSTRUCTION Savage River Dam_________ Cumberland, Md., local protection-___________ CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE CE NPS FC, PA, IWS, DSP. FC. DWS. RECL. N. FC, N, R. FC. N. FC. FC. N. N. R. Washington Aqueduct_______ Anacostia Park, D. C_______ Potomac River, North Channel, D. C_______________ Anacostia River Basin_______ Colonial Beach, Va., shore protection_______________ St. Patriots Creek, Md_____ AUTHORIZED Waynesboro, Va., local protection_______________ Washington, D. C, local protection______ _ ____ St. Catherines Sound, Md____ Channel, St. George Island, Md___ ___________ George Washington Memorial Parkway________________ 1 Corps of Engineers (CE); National Park Service (NPS). 1 Flood Control (FC), Pollution Abatement (PA), Industrial Water Supply (IWS), Downstream Power (DSP), Domestic Water Supply (DWS), Reclaiming Land (RECL), Navigation (N), Recreation (R). Basin, and the State water pollution control agencies in their appropriate fields of responsibility. The initial program would also include the preparation and adoption of a plan and program for the comprehensive development of the basin. The participation of all interested Federal, State, and local interests, would be enlisted in this endeavor. Full regaxd would be given to the control and use of the water resources for flood control, navigation, hydroelectric power development, water supplies and pollution abatement, the preservation and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources, water- shed management, drainage, the protection and wise use of the mineral resources, preservation and en- hancement of the recreational resources of the Potomac River Basin, and, consistent with all of the above, the preservation of the scenic and esthetic values in the basin. Of primary importance to the accomplishment of these objectives would be the effective control of the river by reservoir construction to capture and reduce damaging flood flows and to conserve and release them for beneficial purposes. A substantial beginning in this direction is at hand in the report of the District and Division Engineers which was completed in 1944. That plan included 14 dams and reservoirs for the primary purposes of flood control and power with important corollary benefits to water supplies, pollution abatement, and recrea- tion. The summaries for that plan indicate the importance of the Potomac River Basin develop- ment and the magnitude of many of the problems involved in river control. Full use would be made of details of this earlier broad study, and the valuable data which were gathered in connection with it, to draft a compre- hensive basin plan that would coordinate and inte- grate more fully land use and watershed treatment plans, water supplies and pollution abatement, recreation, and other related uses. Plans should reconcile to the greatest possible extent controversies which have existed in the past, including questions of the development of the river in the vicinity of Washington to and including the fall line at Great Falls. The reconciliation of differences as to plan of development throughout the basin, however, would be consistent with preserving the opportunity for the maximum economic water resource use in the general public interest. The program would set forth the most pressing needs and the specific program that should be im- plemented by authorizations and appropriations for early construction. Every encouragement would be given to the States and local agencies within the basin to implement their part of a program for comprehensive development, including recreation, fisheries, and wildlife, watershed management, flood prevention including zoning, ground water regu- lation, and the program for pollution abatement of the States and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. Collection of basic data in all fields necessary to the planning and realization of the primary stage of development would go for- ward in a manner that will permit balanced development. 622 |