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<br />Gunnison County, Dos Rios Water System, Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District, <br />Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Town of Crested Butte, Scenic River Tours, City of Gunnison, <br />Gunnison County Stock Growers Association and Crested Butte South Metropolitan District. <br /> <br />Winter Operational Weather Modification Program, Kings River Conservation District and <br />Kings River Water Association, California 1989 -1993. <br /> <br />NA WC was awarded a contract through competitive bid to conduct a winter snowpack <br />augmentation program for the Kings River drainage above Pine Flat Dam in the southern Sierra <br />Nevada of California. This program was conducted during the five winter seasons beginning in <br />1989 and ending in 1993. The goal of the program was to augment winter snowpack which <br />would result in additional reservoir storage to be used for agricultural irrigation and hydroelectric <br />generation. The program utilized a cloud seeding aircraft, a network of ground based cloud <br />seeding generators and weather radar. Mr. Griffith has served as the supervisor of these <br />programs. <br /> <br />Summer Operational Weather Modification Programs for Edwards Underground Water <br />District, City of Corpus Christi and San Angelo in Texas, 1985 -1988 <br /> <br />Mr. Griffith was contacted in 1984 by the Edwards Underground Water District of San Antonio, <br />Texas. A drought that was affecting Texas was depleting the water supplies of San Antonio. A <br />proposal was prepared to begin a summer weather modification program in 1985. This proposal <br />was accepted. A comprehensive program design, public meetings, and a court hearing were <br />required to obtain the necessary State permit to operate the program. Areas adjacent to this <br />program expressed interest in this technology resulting in two additional programs, one for the <br />City of Corpus Christi, and the other for San Angelo. Equipment utilized on these programs <br />consisted of a weather radar and a cloud seeding aircraft. A NA WC meteorologist and pilot <br />were used on each program. <br /> <br />Programs were again conducted in the Edwards Underground Water District and the San Angelo <br />areas during the summer of 1986. A program continued in the San Angelo area during the <br />summers of 1987 and 1988. The goal of all ofthese programs was to augment the municipal <br />water supplies through treatment of naturally occurring cumulus clouds over the drainage areas. <br />Mr. Griffith was responsible for the overall supervision ofthese programs. <br /> <br /> <br />Sierra Cooperative Pilot Project for the Bureau of Reclamation, 1977 -1983 <br /> <br />The Sierra Cooperative Pilot Project (SCPP) was a Bureau of Reclamation funded winter <br />weather modification research program. It was conducted in the Central Sierra Nevada east of <br />Sacramento, California. The SCPP involved a number of Bureau personnel plus several <br />contractors. NA WC was awarded a Bureau contract in 1977 to perform design, review, and <br />evaluation functions on this program. The goal of the SCPP was to document the potential for <br />weather modification in winter storms in the Sierra Nevada and to test different cloud seeding <br />methodologies. Mr. Griffith served as co-principal investigator on this contract. <br /> <br />Central Sierra Nevada Research Program, (Bureau of Reclamation) 1968 -1973 <br /> <br />Prior to joining North American Weather Consultants, Mr. Griffith was a research <br />meteorologist/assistant director on the Central Sierra Nevada Research Program (CENSARE). <br />CENSARE was a Bureau of Reclamation funded field research program conducted under the <br />