Finance Committee Meeting 2008

• Board Meeting Date: 9/16/2008
• Description: Finance Sub-Committee Meeting September 16, 2008
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Non-Reimbursable Application- CWCB Construction Fund
Form Revised July 2008
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5. Explain why you are requesting a grant, instead of a loan. (the Construction Fund exists primarily to
provide low interest loans for the construction or rehabilitation of raw water projects. Non-
reimbursable investments are approved only when the project or study is of statewide interest and
benefits a wide range of people and organizations, and/or a large geographical area.
There are approximately 100 ground based cloud nuclei generators in Colorado that are targeting mountain
ranges in Colorado to produce small amounts of additional snowpack and there are many beneficiaries of this
activity. In addition water augmentation through wintertime cloud seeding has become an issue of statewide
and regional significance through agreements to pursue water augmentation alternatives. The CWCB funding
also is used to help modernize equipment used by local programs.
In reference to question 6 below,the contractors for cloud seeding programs in Colorado are listed.They hold
the state of Colorado weather modification permit. The CWCB funding is distributed to local governments and
water districts,which then match with their own funding to contract with the cloud seeding consultants. The
entities that conduct cloud seeding and use CWCB funds are: Southwestern WCD,Dolores WCD,City of
Durango,Durango Mountain Resort,Florida WCD,Pine River Irrigation Distirct,Pagosa Areas W&S,
Gunnison County,Crested Butte Ski Area, Crested Butte W&S,Town of Gunnison, Collbran WCD,Grand
Mesa WCD,North Fork WCD,Fruitland Mesa WCD,Crawford WCD,City of Grand Junction, Colorado
Springs Utilties,and Denver Water.
6. List the names and addresses of any technical or legal consultants retained to represent the applicant or
to conduct investigations for the proposed project or study.
Name Address &Phone Number
Larry Hjermstad POB 58,Durango Colorado
Western Weather Consultants [phone]
Don Griffith 8180 South Highland Drive,Suite B-2,Sandy,UT 84093
North American Weather Consuoltants [phone]
Pete Kasper P.O.Box 181,Eckert,CO 81410
Water Enhancement Authority (9701264-4241
7. List any feasibility study or scope of work that has been completed or is now in progress for the
proposed project or study. (Submit one copy with this application):
The feasibility of weather modification through cloud seeding is documented through numerous research experiments
predominiantly funded by NOAA and the USBR over the four decades. In 2008 to benefit the Water Resource Information
Center the USBR collection of reports and studies was scanned and returned.The CWCB online database now houses over
two hundred reports and studies related to cloud seeding and weather modification.
Vail Streamflow Study-An analysis of streamflow using streamgage data generated during the 37 year permitted program for
the Vail/Beaver Creek cloud seeding program is being conducted by Dr.Bernie Silverman a former USBR employee and
recognized expert in the field.The results from this study will be submitted in December 2008 to the Weather Modification
• Association Journal for peer review and publication in April 2009. The results will likely show and increase in some
drainages down from the target in the observed period that wlill have decades onf no seeding and decades of seeding for
comparison.