Ground Water 4-17 



Clark Fork Basin 4-19 



Lower Flathead Basin 4-2 



Water Exchanges 4-22 



The Probability of New Federal 



Irrigation Projects 4-23 



CHAPTER 5 ACTION PLAN 5-1 



INTRODUCTION 5-1 



COMPONENTS OF THE PLAN 5-1 



Data Management 5-1 



Public Involvement 5-2 



Funding 5-2 



Recommendations 5-3 



RECOMMENDATIONS 5-4 



Upper Clark Fork Reclamation 5-4 



Butte Mine Flooding 5-4 



Warm Springs Ponds 5-5 



Floodplain Mine Wastes 5-6 



Soils and Reclamation 5-8 



Surface Water Quality 5-10 



Nonpoint Source Pollution 5-11 



Nutrients and Eutrophication 5-13 



DO, Temperature, and Mixing Zones . . . 5-16 



Monitoring 5-17 



Ground Water 5-21 



Fisheries 5-23 



Recreation 5-27 



Water Management Issues 5-28 



Water Rights 5-28 



Instream Flow 5-3 



Land and Water Use Inventory 5-3 2 



Natural Resource Damages Claim 5-3 3 



Program Implementation and Continuity. . . . 5-34 



REFERENCES CITED R-1 



APPENDIX 



PUBLIC COMMENTS AND RESPONSES A-1 



INTRODUCTION A-1 



COMMENTS FROM PUBLIC MEETINGS A-1 



Butte A-1 



Missoula A-6 



Plains A-17 



WRITTEN COMMENTS A-24 



VI 



