A letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated July 8, 1965, submitting a report, together with accompanying papers and illustrations, on a survey of Grand River and Tributaries, Missouri and Iowa, authorized by flood control acts approved June 22, 1936. June 28, 1938 and July 24, 1946.

"The original plan for flood control in Missouri, proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Pick-Sloan Plan authorized in the 1944 Flood Control Act, was not acceptable to the majority of Missouri people. It would have tried to control floods only by dams, levees and other structural devices on the streams, it did not include any means for reducing or retarding the runoff of surface water and soil from the uplands where floods originate. At a meeting called by Governor Donnelly in Jefferson City, February 14, 1947, the Osage River Basin was selected as the area of this new and broader study. Two general projects were thus set in motion: (1) a joint study by the Army Corps of Engineers and the State Division of Resources and Development to consider the redesign and relocation of the whole system of dams; (2) a survey of the Basin to estimate: cost of full-scale soil conservation program and to aid in flood control.