El Dorado Cloud Seeding Program Expansion
3 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2017052041
Lead Agency
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Document Title
El Dorado Cloud Seeding Program Expansion
Document Type
MND - Mitigated Negative Declaration
Received
Present Land Use
Mostly vacant w/ zoning and GP: Timber production, rural lands and forest resource
Document Description
SMUD is proposing to expand its El Dorado Cloud Seeding Program, which would increase SMUD's current cloud seeding area from 190 square miles to approx 444 square miles of the Upper American River watershed, primarily in El Dorado County. The expanded target area would be treated with silver iodide nuclei dispersed by stationery ground-based units, aircraft, and mobile units transported to selected sites. The program is designed to produce localized increases in snowfall and subsequent snowmelt over a larger area of the watershed of SMUD's Upper American River Project. Like SMUD's current cloud seeding program, the proposed project would focus on the watersheds of Ice House, Union Valley, and Loon Lake reservoirs and their hydropower facilities in El Dorado County. The proposed project would also include the South Fork American River watershed that drains to Slab Creek Reservoir and its associated hydropower facilities.
Contact Information
Name
Jerry Park
Agency Name
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Counties
Alpine, Amador, El Dorado, Placer
Cross Streets
444 s.m. in Eldorado National Forest
Parcel #
various
State Highways
50, 88
Schools
various
Waterways
Various
Other Location Info
Kyburz, Meyers
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
Cal Fire, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 3 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB), Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Delta Protection Commission, Delta Stewardship Council, Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights
Development Types
Other (expanding existing cloud seeding target area)
Local Actions
cloud seeding
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, GHG
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