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• Board Meeting Date: 1/23/2008
• Description: Director's Report - CWCB Director
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

and will be sent to the Southwestern Water Conservation District.
There are three cloud seeding permit programs in southwestern Colorado: the Western Dolores/Telluride
program, Western San Juan Mountains program, and Eastern San Juan Mountains program. Although it is
hard to determine the type of winter, amount of time needed, and which cloud seeding solution will be
used, we have structured state assistance specific to local programs so that funding amounts are known in
advance. This will help develop the agreements and program estimates prior to winter. Notable points
from the negotiations were:
• Drainage in the Eastern San Juan Mountains on the Little Navajo and Navajo Rivers benefit the
State of New Mexico and one cloud seeding generator was relocated to Edith, Colorado.
• The rest of the New Mexico funding was spread evenly among the thirteen cloud seeding
generators that comprise the Eastern San Juan Mountains program
• $5,000 of the NMISC funding was allocated for operations in the Western San Juan Mountains
program.
The NMISC funding was timely, as the main local funding partner (Pagosa Area W&S District)
did not have funding for cloud seeding this year and the program was going on "standby" -
defined as paying a maintenance fee to keep the generators in place but having no funding to
operate them with the silver iodide solution.
Language in the agreement allows for future participation from New Mexico water users, like the
San Juan Water Commission, if they can develop a budget and also elect to participate.
There is no NMISC cloud seeding funding budgeted for winter 2009.
The current scope of work estimates are for all three southwestern Colorado cloud seeding programs and
are to operate November 1, 2007 through February 29, 2008. The participants, funding levels, and
percentage of the total program, and hours paid for are as follows:
Western San Juan Mountains Cloud Seeding Program
Participants Funding % Total Funds Funded Seeding
Local San Juan Region $69,130 66.38 % 2,024.6 hours
CWCB $15,000 14.41 % 439.5 hours
NMISC $5,000 4.80 % 146.4 hours
Lower Colo. River Basin $15,000 14.41 % 439.5 hours
TOTALS $104,130 100.00 % 3,050.0 hours
Eastern San Juan Mountains Cloud Seeding Program
Participants Funding % Total Funds Funded Seeding
Local San Juan Region $32,092 32.38 % 919.58 hours
CWCB $15,000 15.14 % 429.98 hours
NIVIISC $37,000 37.34 % 1,060.46 hours
Lower Colo. River Basin $15,000 15.14 % 429.98 hours
TOTALS $99,092 100.00 % 2,840.00 hours
Telluride/Upper San Miguel Basin Cloud Seeding Program
Participants Funding % Total Funds Funded Seeding
Local San Juan Region $48,854 61.96 % 1,347.62 hours
CWCB $15,000 19.02 % 413.69 hours
NMISC 0 0 0
Lower Colo. River Basin $15,000 19.02 % 413.69 hours
TOTALS $78,854 100.00 % 2,175.00 hours
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