WMOD00568

• Project Name: Snowater
• Title: Snow Water Augmentation for the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies - Stage I: Technology Adaptation
• Date: 6/1/1986
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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1.5 PROPOSED COSTS

SNOWATER I costs are estimated at $6.5 million over four years. This
includes $2.25 million and $1.8 million in years one and two for
technology acquisition and adaptation, hypotheses development, and
seeding trials; $1.8 million in year three for a field test of all
measurement systems and $0.650 million in year four for system
refinement, data analysis and i1terpretation and completion of the
SNOWATER Final Report.

1.6 CONCLUSION

SNOWATER I is a mechanism for the adaptation of snow augmentation
technology to Alberta. It offers an opportunity to alleviate water
shortages and help mitigate drought in southern Alberta at relatively
low cost. The Atmospheric Sciences Department of the Alberta Research
Council has the scientific, engineering, technical and administrative
skills to carry out the program.

At the conclusion of SNOWATER I, The Alberta Research Council would
provide a design for a statistical and physical test of this
technology during SNOWATER II.

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