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<br />study basins, the report concluded: liOn only 1 percent of the Willii'l11s <br />Forks Lakes catchment is the delay in seasonal melting likely to be of <br />more than 7 days, while only 3 percent of the El Dorado Lake Basin <br />would be similarly affected.1I [10, p. 179] <br /> <br />Snowpackmeltout dates must be monitored during an operational cloud <br />seeding program in cooperation with resource management agencies to <br />determine if delay causes significant and adverse effects to the <br />environment and related human activities. This objective can be <br />accomplished by informal observation and reporting networks in addition <br />to formal monitoring techniques. <br /> <br />The Project Skywater FES states: IIIn research studies aimed at identi- <br />fying avalanche triggering effects, the effect of relatively small <br />incremental increases in snowfall have been masked by the more pronounced <br />influences of wind, temperature, rate of snowfall, etc.1I [2, p. 3-30] <br />A 1977 analysis by Howell states: <br /> <br />liThe rel at ion between snowpack augmentation and aval anche <br />hazard is greatly complicated by other factors affecting the <br />release of avalanches and affecting the prediction, warning, <br />and appl ication of countermeasures that mitigate this <br />hazard. In chutes where they seldom run, avalanches occur <br />under rare conditions of recognizably high avalanche danger, <br />when cloud seeding would be suspended under accepted proce- <br />dures. In areas of high avalanche frequency, such as many <br />chutes in the Red Mountain Pass area of the San Juan Mountains, <br />many avalanches run during nearly every major storm, and <br /> <br />22 <br />