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<br />SELECTED ALTERNATIVE <br />ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACCOUNT <br />Sedgwick~Sand Draws Watershed <br />Colorado <br />Nebraska <br /> <br />Components <br /> <br />Measures of Effects <br /> <br />Beneficial and Adverse Effects: <br /> <br />A. Areas of natural beauty <br /> <br />1. Treatment necessary to prevent <br />wind and water erosion will be <br />applied on 8450 acres of cropland <br />and 5700 acres'of rangeland. <br /> <br />2. Application of the fOllowing prac- <br />,tices will change the visual land- <br />scape and have an effect on the <br />natural beauty of the watershed: <br /> <br />Practice <br /> <br />Amount <br /> <br />Conservation cropping system 5,144 ac. <br />Irrigation ditch and canal lining 50,000 ft. <br />Land leveling 1,310 ac. <br />Irrigation water management 4,154 ac. <br />-- - __nu - - ---- - --- - ----- - - - ---- - - - - -p,n,ture-planETng- - -~--- _____n --- - - -1210 ac. <br />Ponds l5(no.) <br />Terraces 166,428 ft. <br />Contour farming 1,300 ac. <br />Proper grazing use 2,500 ac. <br />Woodland tree planting 40 ac. <br />Upland wildlife habitat 514 ac. <br /> <br />3. Information and education program <br />by the district will reduce pollu- <br />tion from agricultural fertilizer <br />and pesticides. <br /> <br />4. The area burned by wildfire will be <br />reduced 1600 acres per year. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />5. Flood damage will be reduced as fol- <br />lows: <br /> <br />Storm Frequency <br /> <br />Acres <br /> <br />lOa-year storm <br />la-year storm <br />2-year storm' <br /> <br />3244 <br />2702 <br />2016 <br /> <br />Part 2-2 <br />December 1975 <br />