six months and preferably a year. The monitoring of these parameters should begin following construction except for soil characteristics that should be monitored throughout the construction phase. The factors to be monitored should be essentially the same as those measured at the simulation site, although the intensity of measurement might not be as great. When the monitoring begins, manipulative studies should also be started at the 10 MWe STPS site. The manipulations would include those used at the simulation site, i.e., vehicular use variations, soil surface changes, and washing procedure changes, as well as altering the stow position of the heliostats and monitoring ecosystem variables in areas with different heliostat packing factors (densities). The ecosystem parameters that are expected to respond to these changes in operation procedures are indicated in the text. The monitoring program at Barstow should continue for the life of the facility (i.e., to 1984 or 1985). The large amount of data obtained from this monitoring effort will give guidance to the type and intensity of any monitoring program at a future solar energy conversion system.
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