Colorado River Ecology and Dam Management Proceedings of a Symposium May 24-25, 1990 Santa Fe, New Mexico (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
Pages 254-258
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But, since the upper states have not finished taking the water made available to them, we are going to see further impacts imposed upon the system the timing of which we cannot forecast. All of these changes are being superimposed on other unanticipated changes such as the possible climate change, the ordinary variability of runoff, and the changes that humans have brought about.
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Such data collection is not costly compared with the cost of inadequate information. The cost of a stream gaging network, sediment, and water quality program is less than the cost of failure to have the proper information.
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7. The political forces that led to the preparation of an environmental impact statement at Glen Canyon Dam, I fear, are likely to use the environmental impact statement as the end product of their research program.
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The data-collection program should be designed with great care, it should consider a wide variety of data needs, and each part should be installed and operated as soon as practicable even though not all parts cannot necessarily begin at one time.
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