Basin Studies
Funded Studies
Reclamation has funded 17 studies. In Fiscal Year 2009, 3 studies were funded; in Fiscal Year 2010, 5 studies were funded; in Fiscal Year 2011, 4 studies were funded. Reclamation has selected 5 studies for Fiscal Year 2012.
- Los Angeles Basin Study (California)
- Pecos River Basin Study (New Mexico)
- Republican River Basin Study (Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska)
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers Basin Study (California)
- Upper Washita River Basin Study (Oklahoma)
- Hood River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Hood River County Water Planning Group to fund the study. The study area encompasses a 339 square-mile region in Hood River County in north-central Oregon.
- Klamath River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the State of California Department of Water Resources and State of Oregon Water Resources Department to fund the study. The study area encompasses 12,100 square miles along the boundary of California and Oregon.
- Lower Rio Grande Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Rio Grande Regional Water Authority to fund the study. The study area encompasses 122,400 square miles along the United States/Mexico border from Fort Quitman, Texas to the Gulf of Mexico.
- Santa Fe Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the City of Santa Fe and County of Santa Fe to fund the study. The study area is in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
Plan of Study
- Greater Los Angeles (California)
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers (California)
- Republican River (Kansas and Nebraska)
- Henry's Fork of the Snake River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Idaho Water Resource Board to fund the study. The study area is located upstream of the confluence of the Henry's Fork and the Snake River in central Idaho.
- Niobrara River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources and Upper Niobrara-White Natural Resources District to fund the study. The study area is located along the Niobrara River in northern Nebraska.
- Santa Ana River Watershed Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority to fund the study. The study area is encompasses 2,650 square miles that comprise the Santa Ana Watershed in southern California.
- Southeast California Regional Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Borrego Water District to fund the study. The study area is located in the desert agricultural areas and communities within the lower Colorado River Hydrologic Region.
- Truckee River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Truckee River Flood Management Project, Placer County Water Agency, Truckee Meadows Water Authority and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
Plan of Study
- Klamath Basin Study (California and Oregon)
- Taos Pueblo Water Supply and Demand Basin Study (New Mexico)
- Colorado River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Colorado River Basin States to fund the study. The study area encompasses the Colorado River Basin States including portions of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. You can learn more about this project on their website.
- St. Mary and Milk River Basins Study - Reclamation partnered with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to fund the study. The study area encompasses north-central Montana, southern Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada and includes the Blackfeet and Ft. Belknap Indian Reservations. They have also developed a Plan of Study.
- Yakima River Basin Study - Reclamation partnered with the Washington Department of Ecology - Office of Columbia River to fund the study. The study area is located in south-central Washington.