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<br />SELECTED ALTERNATIVE <br />ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACCOUNT (CONTINUED) <br />Sedgwick-Sand Draws.Watershed <br />Colorado <br />Nebraska <br />Components Measures of Effects <br /> <br />13. Two hundred seventy-two acres of <br />rangeland above the dams will be <br />covered with sediment at the end <br />of 100 years. <br /> <br />14. 361 acres disturbed during con- <br />struction of structural measures <br />will be reseeded with adapted <br />grasses, shrubs, and trees. <br /> <br />15. 502 acres, presently rangeland, <br />above the dams will be subject to <br />periodic flooding for periods up <br />to ten days. This area includes <br />the 272 acres of sediment storage. <br /> <br />16. Thirty-three acres of cropland will <br />be converted to floodways. <br /> <br />--- - -~- ------- ---- ---- ------------------_._-~- - -- -- .-.- --- --- -.------ --- --. <br />17. An average of 205 acres of lower- <br />lying floodplain will not receive <br />a deposition of sediment annually. <br /> <br />B. Quality consideration of <br />water, land, and air <br />resources <br /> <br />1. Adequate treatment to protect the <br />resource base will be applied on <br />8450 acres of cropland and 5700 <br />acres of rangeland. <br /> <br />2. Information and education program <br />by the district. will reduce pollu- <br />tion from agricultural fertilizer <br />and pesticides. <br /> <br />3. Smoke will be reduced by reducing <br />the area burned by 1600 acres per <br />year. <br /> <br />Part 2-4 <br />December 1975 <br />