Seventeen Department of Conservation staff worked varying lengths of time on the West Osage River Basin inventory and management plan during the last 6 years. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the dedicated effort our secretaries, Hope Lukenbill and Kathie Kinkead-Flores, who typed, edited, and proofread the document.
Without the continued support and effort expended by all Fisheries Management District 6 staff and information provided by other agencies, this plan would not have been possible. In the Missouri portion of the West Osage Basin there are 2, streams with a combined length of approximately 3, mi, of which are third order or larger 1, miles.
Gradients vary considerably from 0. Since the construction of Truman Dam, flooding has increased in the lower portions of streams within the flood pool of Truman Lake. Historically, the basin was dominated by tall grass prairies and oak and hickory forests in uplands and along stream corridors. Row crops, pasture and hay production and beef, swine and dairy cattle dominate the agricultural activities. There are 45 public use areas totaling almost 37, acres and 40 miles of stream frontage in public ownership.
Annual rainfall within the basin averages In the Missouri portion of the basin there are third order and larger streams totaling 1, miles.
There are four gauging stations with significant periods of record with stream mean daily discharges ranging from to 2, cfs. Streams exhibit low base flows and large year to year variations in low flows. On the average, the Little Osage River exceeds bank full discharge 2 times per year, the Marmaton River 0.
Downstream from the Truman Dam, the river becomes the serpentine Lake of the Ozarks, stretching eastward for nearly 92 miles km to Bagnell Dam in Camden County and southwestern Miller County. Constructed in , the dam collects the Niangua River. Downstream from the dam, the Osage flows freely to the northeast in broad oxbow meanders through forested bluffs, joining the Missouri approximately 15 miles 24 km east and downstream of Jefferson City.
The river presented significant navigation difficulties for early settlers because of its fluctuating water levels, as well as the presence of shallow pools and sand bars caused by its tight meandering course through the hills. The Missouri Legislature attempted as early as to deepen the channel of the river. The term river mile is the distance from the mouth of the creek or river to the gage, to the nearest tenth of a mile.
The distance is measured from the outlet to the sea or Puget Sound on the main stem or from the confluence with the larger creek or river.
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