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<br />(2) Environmental Quality. As with construction of canals, <br />earth movement and construction activities on dams and related storage <br />facilities would cause significant local impact on air and water quality. <br />Impacts would be relatively short term in any given local area and <br />similar to those caused by construction of typical water resource <br />projects. The magnitude of the project overall, and presumably long <br />construction period would continue these adverse impacts for a <br />substantially longer period within the region than more typical water <br />resource projects. <br /> <br /> <br />Aesthetic values would be changed significantlY at each storage <br />reservoir site. Natural flood plain hardwood forest would be converted <br />to a standing water reservoir. Varying with volume pumped, refinements <br />in system operation, and periodicity of hydrological phenomena not under <br />control by man, each storage reservOir would be expected to have <br />fluctuating water levels. Wide fluctuations in water levels would cause <br />aesthetic values to be lessened over that normally provided in a water <br />project, due to presence of mud flats, shoreline damage, and odors <br />associated with wetting and drying of bottom sediments. Potential value <br />for recreational use could also be severely limited due to fluctuating <br />water levels and access problems. <br /> <br />Currently identified storage reservoirs would have little <br />direct impact on public National or State resource areas. In Arkansas, <br />the storage reservoir on Bayou Bodcau could affect Bois D' Arc State <br />Wildlife Management Area, and storage on Bayou Oes Arc could directly <br />impact the Bayou Oes Arc State Wildlife Management Area. In Texas, <br />storage on the Sabine River would adversely affect this portion of the <br />river's status as a potential State scenic waterway. Indirect impacts <br />on public National and State wildlife areas due to changes in downstream <br />flow regimes are discussed under biological impacts. <br /> <br />(3) Biological. Storage reservoirs would have a major direct <br />adverse impact on wildlife habitat and associated wildlife species. <br />Source. storage reservoirs in Arkansas and northeast Texas will <br />potentially directly impact the highest quality and highest value (to <br />wildlife) habitat remaining in these states. The most extensive impacts <br />will occur to palustrine and lacustrine wetlands, flood plain <br /> <br /> <br />050 <br />