WMOD00305 ‎(2)‎

• Title: Demonstrating Water Augmentation by Cloud Seeding in the Colorado River Basin
• Date: 5/1/1974
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

7. Key Alternatives. - Although there will probably

be many modifications from the preliminary plan

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outlined in this proposal, at least four main viable

alternatives should be considered at the very conception

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of the proposed project. These alternatives do not

change the proposed goals on specific objectives,

but their early evaluation may influence the details

of the project plan and operating procedures.

(a) Funding. - This proposal assumes Federal

nonreimbursable research funds would provide the

majority of support for the project, although

substantial power revenues and other benefits

would accrue immediately. state cooperation and

some cost-sharing are planned. An alternative is

to have the states, water users, or some regional

organization fund the majority of the demonstration

costs. This funding alternative as well as

management alternatives are discussed in the

stanford Research Institute comprehensive study

of snowpack augmentation in the Basin 3/.

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3/ Weisbecker, L. W., "Technology Assessment of Winter
Orographic Snowpack Augmentation in the Upper Colorado
River Basin" Final Report, National Science Foundation
Contract NSF-C64l, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo
Park, California, May 1972.

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