@article{Economic:329085,
      recid = {329085},
      author = {Economic Research Service and Forest Service and Soil  Conservation Service},
      title = {ACE [Ashley-Combahee-Edisto] River Basin Cooperative  Study:  Water and Land Resources},
      address = {1977},
      number = {1962-2022-1851},
      pages = {390},
      year = {1977},
      note = {The study is being made under Section 6 of the Watershed  Protection and Flood Prevention Act of the 83rd Congress  (Public Law 566, as amended).  U.S. Department of  Agriculture (USDA) agencies assigned direct  responsibilities in the study are the Soil Conservation  Service (SCS),  Economic Research Service (ERS) and the  Forest Service (FS).  The SCS has overall responsibility  for coordinating the study within USDA.  ERS has  responsibilities pertaining to economic studies,  agricultural projections and impacts of proposed projects.   The FS has responsibilities pertaining to the total forest  program including production, management, projections and  other broader uses such as recreation and fish and  wildlife.  The South Carolina Water Resources Commission  was assigned by the Governor to represent the state and  coordinate the study.},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report:  The Ashley-Combahee-Edisto  (ACE) Basin is a triangular shaped area of 4,475,876 acres  in southern South Carolina.  The basin boundary can be  defined roughly as a line from the Savannah Harbor,  northwest to Batesburg, southeast to Charleston and then  southwesterly along the coast back to the Savannah Harbor.   Four counties (Bamberg, Beaufort, Colleton and Dorchester)  are located entirely within the basin.  Twelve other  counties partially within the basin are Aiken, Allendale,  Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Edgefield,  Hampton, Jasper, Lexington, Orangeburg and Saluda.  The ACE  Basin is bordered by the Santee Basin on the northeast, the  Savannah Basin on the southwest, and the Atlantic Ocean on  the southeast.  Almost half of the area is drained by the  Edisto River, 40 percent by the Combahee and other tidal  rivers, and the remaining 10 percent by the Ashley River.  These rivers represent individual hydrologic units draining  into the Atlantic Ocean.  The overall purpose of the study  is directed toward improvement in the quality of life  through contributions to the objectives of national  economic development and environmental quality.  Broadly,  the objectives are to provide a guide for federal, state  and local interests to conserve, develop and utilize their  water and related land resources in an efficient and timely  manner.  The report of the study includes inventories of  natural and economic resources, future without development  projections, problems and needs, alternative solutions that  will help meet needs, a preferred plan and opportunities  for USDA programs and other agency programs to carry out  the preferred plan.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329085},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329085},
}