WMOD00592

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

3.1.2.
3.1.3.
3.1.4.
3.1.5.
3.1.6.
3.1.7.
3.1.8.

CO~TENTS - Continued

Hail fall .................................

Atmospheric humidity......................
Cloudiness and sunshine ...................

.~ir quality ...............................

Length of winter ..........................
Weather patterns ..........................
Aggregate impact on weather ...............

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3.2. Impact on hydrological and physiographic

phenomena ..................................... 3-28

3.2.1.
3.2.2.
3.2.3.
3.2.4.

3.2.4.1.
3.2.4.2.

3.2.5.
3.2.6.
3.2.7.
3.2.8.
3.2.9.

Snow cover
Avalanches
Landslides

Runoff ....................................

Runoff from augmented rainfall
Runoff from augmented snowfall

l'later quality .............................

Ground water ..............................

Physiographic features ....................

Soi 1 s .....................................

Eros ion ...................................

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3.2.9.1. Erosion in unstable soil areas ........ 3-57

3.2.10.
3.2.11.

Kilderness hydrology and physiography.....
Aggregate impact on hydrology and
phys iography ............................

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3-64

3.3. Impact on human activities ...................... 3-65

3.3.1.
3.3.2.
3.3.3.
3.3.4.

3.3.5.
3.3.6.
3.3.7.
3.3.8.
3.3.9.

Water supply and hydroelectric power ......

Kater rights ..............................

Snow remova 1 ..............................

Cropping patterns, farm prices
and local economies .....................

Recrea t i on ................................

Human health and safety...................

..~esthetics ................................

Historic and cultural resources ...........
Impact on growth inducement ...............

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