1.1. Development
of Water
Resources
7
Table 1.1
Forecast of Capital Expenditures for the Ohio River Basin Development
Program
61
Cumulative, in addition to 1965 program
To 1980
To 2020
Cost
6
Cost
6
(billion
(billion
Amount dollars)
Amount
dollars)
A. Water resource programs (stream flow
control and in-place use)
1. Flood Control
a. Storage (million acre-feet)
10.0
2.51
33.4
8.50
b. Local protection projects (miles)
152
0.15
488
0.34
c. Channel improvement (miles)
2,394
0.09
6,328
0.24
d. Flood plain information studies
200
0.01
700
0.02
(number of studies)
2. Low flow control (million acre-feet)
5.8
1.40
16.1
3.96
3. Navigation
a. Improvement to existing system
2,187
0.46
2,187
0.67
(miles of channel)
b. Potential extensions and new
172
0.01
527
1.14
waterways (miles of channel)
4. Hydroelectric power (megawatts)
7,200
0.81
40,000
4.50
Total, water resource programs cost
5.44
19.37
Related programs
1. Outdoor recreation, sport fishing, and
132.7
0.46
494.6
1.72
hunting (million man-days)
2. Watershed land treatment and
11.4
0.29
29.2
0.73
management (million acres)
3. Lands to be irrigated (million acres)
0.1
0.01
1.3
0.12
4. Lands to be drained (million acres)
3.2
0.42
4.0
0.54
Total, related programs cost
1.18
3.11
Grand total, water and related land
6.62
22.48
framework program cost
a
Source: Drobny [1970].
b In 1965 dollars.