WMOD00274

• Title: Western Kansas Weather Modification Program 2006 - Final Report
• Prepared By: Walter E. Geiger III
• Date: 10/30/2006
• State: KS
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

III. GENERAL OPERATIONS - PROJECT DESIGN

The WKWMP originally was designed to be an operational cloud seeding effort to
optimize precipitation and reduce crop-damaging hail over patticipating counties in Western and
Southwestern Kansas. Although its objectives have not changed over the years, slight design
changes have been made to better accomplish its goals. The changes made in previous years
were due both to technological innovations and expansion into northwestern Kansas and
northeastern Colorado. However, since 2001, the physical portion of the design of the WKWMP
has brought us back to where we all began..."back to square one," as the English would say. As
a review of Fig. I on page 2 shows the 2006 physical boundaries of the current program.

In the past we've tried to be selective in deploying certain technological improvements
due mostly to limited annual budgets, however, beginning in 1995 m~or funding sources from
both the Kansas Water Office (1995-2002, 2004-2006) and from GMD #3 (1995-present)
allowed us to start making more significant, long-term program improvements. The primary
impetus came from the Kansas Water Office (KWO) funding, without which GMD #3 also
would not have been able to participate. Funding from the KWO was cut at the end of 2002 but
efforts during the winter of 2004 allowed for the restoration of State funding. Fig. 3 shows the
current WKWMP organizational structure and its current sources of funding.

WKWMP Organizational Structure

GMD#1
Board
Of
Directors

GMD #1
Executive
Director

Advisory
Board

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Lakin Field HQ
Radar Site

GMD#1

WKWMP Funding Sources

GMD #3 Participatin-;l
Counties (].DJ

Kansas
Water Office

Total Funding to
WKWMP

Fig. 3

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