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<br />NEWSLETTER 95 - 1 <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />APR 2 5 1996 <br /> <br />FOR THE PERIOD APRIL 15 - <br /> <br />Colorado Water <br />APRIL 19, 199fYonservationBoan:t <br /> <br />GENERAL INTEREST: The Western Kansas Weather Modification Program <br />(WKWMP) began its 22nd consecutive season of cloud seeding April <br />15th. Through cloud seeding, the WKWM Program attempts to increase <br />rainfall and reduce crop-damaging hail during the crop growing and <br />harvesting season each year. In most other years the Program has <br />run from May 1st through September 15th. This year it will run a <br />full one-month longer ending September 30th. <br /> <br />Two more full counties have joined the 1996 WKWM Program: <br />Stevens and Wallace. This increases the WKWMP target area size to <br />11,536 sq. mi., eas,ily the largest program of' its kind in North <br />America. In the past a relatively small portion of Wallace County <br />participated in the WKWMP, the part located inside the Western <br />Kansas Groundwater Management District #1 confines. Stevens County <br />has participated before, in 1980. Due to the increased size of the <br />~'KWM program target area, another cloud base aircraft has been <br />added bringing the total number of planes to six; five cloud base <br />seeders and one cloud top seeder. The new plane is based in <br />Tribune. <br /> <br />The six aircraft and pilots are as follows: <br /> <br />Cloud Base <br />Lakin - Brian Bergman <br />Johnson - Chris Grilliot <br />Syracuse - Steve Phillips <br />Tribune - Tyson Teeter <br />Scott City - Larry Freer <br /> <br />Both Tyson Teeter and Larry Freer will be new pilots-in- <br />command and were pilot interns previously on our program. Tyson was <br />based in JOhnson in 1993 and 1994; Larry was in Syracuse last year. <br />Luke Gerard will fly the fifth plane until Larry graduates from the <br />University of North Dakota around mid-May. <br /> <br />Cloud TOp <br />Dodge City - Kyle Spencer <br /> <br />Reserve Cloud Base pilot <br />Johnson - Luke Gerard <br /> <br />A permit hearing was held in Lamar April 2nd in whiCh the WKWM <br />Program requested permission to overfly and seed a distance of 60- <br />miles west of the Kansas state line inside Eastern Colorado. The <br />hearing officer len ,the record open two weeks for further public <br />comment. The decision will be made around April 22nd or 23rd, <br /> <br />No seeding was done during this period of the WKWM Program. <br /> <br /> <br />~hlY. 14 <br /> <br />Curtis D. s~' <br />Program Manager, <br />western Kansas Weather Modification <br />