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<br />Weather Modification Pennit (WM2) <br />Applicant: Colorado Greenhouse, Inc, <br />Date: June 12,1998 <br /> <br />OPERATIONAL PLAN <br /> <br />\, Description of the objectives of the proposed project. <br /> <br />Commercial operation of a hail suppression device using sequenced sound waves to produce <br />a cavitation effect in ice fonning within cumulus cloud formations in order to inhibit the <br />formatioI! ofice.p'~icles (;ll,using the mQisture to fall as rain rather than hail within the target <br />area. <br /> <br />2, Description of the target area and the area reasonably expected to be effected by the project. <br /> <br />The target areas includes the following parcels in Morgan County, Colorado and Weld <br />County, Colorado: <br /> <br />(a)The Northwest Yo of Section 34, Township 2 North, Range 66 West of the 6th P,M, <br />(b)The Northeast Y. of Section 10, Township 3 North, Range 56-West of the 6th P,M, <br /> <br />Please see attached map(s) of target areas, <br /> <br />3, Description of how the proiect will be carried out (including location of office and weather <br />data used), <br /> <br />The project will be carried out by the installation and operation of a hail cannon located within <br />the above-described target area(s), Each target area will cover a circle (with the hail cannon <br />at the center) with a radius of 500 meters, Due to distortions resulting from prevailing winds, <br />the target area may become enlarged to the extent that the areas reasonably expected to be <br />affected by the project are those areas within a 1,000 meter (3,280 feet) radius of the hail <br />cannon, [The distortions will be dependent upon the velocity of the prevailing winds, <br />Generally, prevailing wind currents crossing the continental divide will be from the west or <br />the northwest and would present a target area elongated to the downwind side usually south <br />(east) and shortened on the upwind side(usually Northwest) of the 500 meter target radius]. <br /> <br />The hail cannon is designed to direct sound waves upward to penetrate the ice particle- <br />producing area of the clouds in order to inhibit the formation of hail stones, The hail cannon <br />is a cylinder-shaped upright chamber, in which acetylene is ignited, discharging energy (in the <br />form of sound waves) upward/perpendicular to the ground, Discharges from the hail cannon <br />are controlled by a computer which sequences the time interval between sound discharges, <br />The decision to commence operation of the hail cannon will be detennined by visual <br />