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<br />. ......"-. <br />':'V!."l <br /> <br />Service for the Pacific' Southwest <br />Inter-Agency Committee. The report <br />refers to a hypothetical maximum <br />projected increase in the annual flow <br />of the Colorado River of four million <br />acre-feet in the Upper Basin and two <br />million acre-feet in the lower Basin <br />but states that these are unrealistic <br />goals. The report does not state what <br />would be realistically attainable levels <br />of water yield increase but does <br />analyze a program that would <br />develop about 500,000 acre-feet in the <br />Upper Basin and 250,000 acre-feet in <br />the lower Basin. <br /> <br />\Vinter Opt',.1fion 0; Ihfl'P 'illt'r iocite/t' <br />~{'IlIHJt(Jr<, /0 ;nU(',l't' prt'cipitJlJon <br />illl/wBJ';/(}. <br /> <br />In 1978, the Board's staff. after <br />rt'viewing the draft report, <br />recommended that the vegetation <br />management studies be coordinated <br />with the weather modification studies <br />of the \Vater and Power Resources <br />Service to obtain full benefits from the <br />effects of simultaneous cloudseeding <br />and vegetation manaRement activities, <br />which multiplies the impacts of each_ <br />These multiplying effects, which are <br />called "synergistic effE'Cts", were <br />analyzed in tht' final report, wherein it <br />was concluded that the combint'd <br />programs would produce more runoff <br />than the sum of each individual <br />program. <br /> <br />lower Colorado River <br />Management Program <br /> <br />The Federal-State lower Colorado <br />River Managt'ment Program Work <br />Group met three times during 1979 to <br />continue coordination of problems of <br />river control, channelization, and <br />environmental preservation and <br />enhanCt'menl. The Coordinating <br />Committee did not meet during the <br />vear. The functions of the Committee <br />and the Work. Group have been <br />described in the Colorado River <br />Board's previous Annual Reports. <br />During 1979, pursuant to a proposal <br /> <br /> <br />13 <br />