WMOD00592

• Project Name: Project Skywater
• Title: Project Skywater - Final Environmental Statement - Volume I
• Date: 1/1/1977
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

2.12.3.9.
2.12.3.10.

CO~TEXTS - Continued

Land use patterns...................
Socioeconomic environnent ...........

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2.13. Sierra Cooperative Pilot Project ............... 2-78

2.13.l.
2.13.2.
2.13.3.
2.13.4.
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2.13.7.
2.13.8.
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Location .................................

C 1 i!:\a t e ..................................

Topography ...............................

\:egetation ...............................

Fish and wildlife ........................

Recreation ...............................

Historic and archeological sites .........
Special aesthetic values .................
Land use patterns ........................
Socioeconomic environment ................

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2.14. ~orth Platte Pilot Project ..................... 2-82

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2.14.3.
2.14.4.
2.14.5.
2.14.6.
2.14.7.
2.14.8.
2.14.9.
2.14.10.

Loca t ion .................................

C 1 irna te ..................................

Topography ...............................

Vegetation ...............................
F ish and wi 1 d 1 if e ........................

Recreation ...............................

Historic and archeological sites .........
Special aesthetic values .................
Land use patterns ........................
Socioeconomic environment ................

CHAPTER 3. E~VIROX~IE~T:\L P-IPACTS OF THE PROG!to-\"1

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3. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1

3.1.

Impact on weather elements .....................

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3.1.1. Precipitation .............................. 3-10

3.1.1.1.
3.1.1.2.
3.1.1.3.

Summer shower precipitation ...........

Kinter snowpacks ......................
Wide-area precipitation ...............

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