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<br />03lJJ <br /> <br />The Social Characteristics of the Area <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />This section presents a preliminary overview of social <br /> <br /> <br />,and economic characteristics in the part of the South Platte <br /> <br /> <br />Valley where impacts will be felt most markedly, from the <br /> <br /> <br />Hardin flood pool area downstream to Brush. Impacts to Greeley <br /> <br /> <br />and to Sterling will also be felt but not nearly so forefully. <br /> <br /> <br />Detailed characteristics of the area and how they would be <br /> <br /> <br />impended by the three alternatives (no dam, Narrows site, Hardin <br /> <br /> <br />site) will be presented in Chapter 3 under some twenty headings. <br /> <br /> <br />The social characteristics of an area, broadly defined, <br /> <br /> <br />include the demographic profile of,the people, that is, their <br /> <br /> <br />characteristics by age, race, sex, ethnicity; their migrator~ <br /> <br /> <br />trends and attachment to given areas; their educational charac- <br /> <br /> <br />teristics; and their family economic characteristics. One might <br /> <br /> <br />also want to include the trends in population demoyraphics, and <br /> <br /> <br />more detailed employment characteristics, but these are discussed <br /> <br /> <br />fully in Sections 3.1, 3.4, and 3.19. This, section gives a <br /> <br /> <br />more general statistical impression of the characteristics of <br /> <br /> <br />~eople in the valley. <br /> <br /> <br />This characterization will be made in the form of tables <br /> <br /> <br />obtained from the U.S. Office of Education, .which summarizes <br /> <br /> <br />1970 U.S. Census data by school district rather than by place. <br /> <br /> <br />In Colorado, school districts are independent of otber political <br /> <br /> <br />boundaries and mix urban and rural areas. Although later sec- <br /> <br /> <br />tions will concentrate more upon political subdivisions, it <br /> <br /> <br />seems appropriate here to portray the valley in terms of its <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />53 <br />