Finance Committee Meeting 2009

• Board Meeting Date: 9/15/2009
• Description: Finance Sub-Committee Meeting September 15, 2009
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Non-Reimbursable Application-CWCB Construction Fund
Form Revised January 2009
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 100 ground based cloud nuclei generators in Colorado targeting mountain ranges to produce small
amounts of additional snowpack and there are many beneficiaries of this activity. Cloud seeding is an issue of
regional significance through Colorado River agreements to pursue water augmentation alternatives.
The CWCB and Colorado River funding has been helpful in getting Colorado's programs more advanced and
modern with an investment in new equipment and modern methodologies that will help with scientific
credibility of our operations. Weather stations with icing sensors determine when conditions are right to seed
and help ensure funding is well spent.
In reference to question 6 below,the contractors or permit holders are listed.They hold the State of Colorado
permit. CWCB funding is distributed to governments and water districts which they match with their own
funding for cloud seeding through consultants. The entities that benefit from CWCB funds are: Southwestern
WCD, Dolores WCD,City'of Durango,Durango Mountain Resort,Florida WCD, Pine River Irrigation District,
Pagosa Area 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 Utilities,and Denver Water.
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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
Tarry Fljermstad, PO13 58,Durango Colorado,[phone]
Western Weather Consultants
Don Griffith 8180 South Highland Drive,Suite B-2,Sandy,UT 84093,
North American Weather Consultants (8011942 9005
Pete Kasper P.O.Box 181,Eckert.Co 81410
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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
predominantly funded by NOAA and the GSf3R over the last four decades. The CWCB online database now houses over two
hundred reports and studies related to cloud seeding and weather modification. Wintertime cloud seeding has a well
documented history of research,operations,and experimentation.
An independent statistical streamflow evaluation of the Vail/Beaver Creek cloud seeding program was published in the 2009
Weather Modification Association Journal. Eight closely spaced basins in the Vail watershed were analyzed.Evidence for
• statistically significant seeding effects ranging from-,-6.3%to—28.8%were found for five of the eight seeding targets.
(abstract attached)