Board Meeting Memorandum 09/08/2003 (B)

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• I "NON-REVIEWED" • , APRIL 2001 STAUFFER 65 1989 most of the state wintertime cloud seeding five silver iodide ground generators. Operational projects were again operational due to drought headquarters were at the Ogden Airport and the radar conditions. State funding for cloud seeding increased system was located on Little Mountain, 15 miles west in 1989 and 1990. Beginning with water year 1991, of Ogden. the legislature authorized the Utah Board of Water Resources to fund (grant) cloud seeding projects up The program operated for six consecutive to SI50,000 each year from its Revolving summers (1976-81). Program costs averaged near Construction Fund. State cost sharing with these $130,000 per year. The state cost-shared with the funds has ranged from 31 to 50 percent, depending counties, providing about 70 percent of the project on total project costs and board policy. Figure I cost. Due to the economic downturn in the state,the shows the state and local funding for cloud seeding legislature did not fund the summer project in 1982 since passage of the 1973 Cloud Seeding Act. and the project ended. Beginning in water year 1989, Box Elder and Cache counties sponsored a 5. SUMMER PROJECT wintertime project that continues today. In 1976 Atmospherics Incorporated of Fresno, During the summer of 1977, a precipitation California,acting as contractor for Box Elder, Cache augmentation project was run statewide from and Rich counties in Northern Utah (Figure 2), mid-July through September. This was an Figure 1. State and Local Funding for Cloud Seeding $700,000 -------- -. • 65 — — • State $600,000 71 0 State 70 31 El Local $500,000 — • 18 37 37 37 c $400,000 • ,t ' F 35 _ ... 47 0 69 —48 .. .a $300,000 78 _ pV : - 50 f :`F 69 _ 37 ;: 50 50 50— _� - T $200,000 :!" rte - • $100,000 0 0 76 73 0 51 .4. II . 1974 1977 1980 1983 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 Water Years designed and conducted a rain augmentation/hail emergency project funded by the state due to extreme suppression project. Equipment included a 5.5 cm drought conditions. weather radar system,two cloud seeding aircraft,and 0 .