WMOD00152

• Applicant: W. Kansas Groundwater Management Dist. #1
• Project Name: Cloud Seeding/14 western Kansas countries
• Date: 10/1/1979
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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SECTION I

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this Annual Report on weather modification
activities in the Western Kansas Muddy Road Project is to:

- Give a brief description of the project equipment
and operational procedures.

- Provide a summary of seeding operations and
logistics for the operating period, May 1 through
August 31, 1979.

- Provide an inventory of meterological and seeding
data which are available for use in later analysis
and evaluation of the effort.

Muddy Road V was the fifth consecutive season of airborne
cloud seeding for rain augmentation and hail suppression in Western
Kansas. The project area was slightly modified in 1979 with the
addition of Seward County, the 15th participating county; reference
Figure 1. Due to funding limitations, the seeding season was
reduced to a 4-month period, May 1 through August 31, 1979.

The previously distributed information booklet entitled
"Cloud Seeding in Kansas" gives the historical background of the
Western Kansas Groundwater Management District's "Muddy Road"
series of rain augmentation and hail suppression operation.
Included is a description of the new facilities and equipment which
were used in Muddy Road Nand V.

With the help of the Federal grant, the new Muddy Road
facility at Lakin Airport, the combined on-top and cloud base seed-
ing methods, and the computerized radar, the District has one of
the most advanced operational programs for rain augmentation and
hail suppression in the United states.

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