The Minnesota River: Report to the Upper Mississippi Reservoir and Minnesota River Valley development Interim Commission

The purpose of this report was to aide the Upper Mississippi Reservoir and Minnesota River Valley Development Interim Commission. The authors were given the task of investigation flooding, irrigation, recreational, economic and developmental problems in the Minnesota River Valley. The flooding section contains data on the severity of flooding as well as existing and proposed measures to reduce the effects flooding has in the Minnesota River Basin. The study of irrigation showed that little did or would take place using waters directly from the Minnesota River. The researchers believed that the cost of the equipment made it impractical. Hunting, fishing and conoeing are all sited as possible recreational values of the Minnesota River. The economic considerations of the valley at the time of the study included water transportation, improvement of navigation, and power production. Developmental issues that would be addressed were mapping, stream gaging and ground water.