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<br />" <br /> <br />several years to these people and if the incidences of hail are not reduced Colorado <br />will be reduced to a secondary status as a supplier of Spinach, with disastrous <br />economic benefits to the producers, Likewise in the production oflettuce, Colorado <br />has had its reputation for dependability seriously damaged as the result of hail over <br />the past several years and competing areas producing lettuce at the same time as <br />Colorado use this as a very effective tool against Colorado's marketing efforts, <br />emphasizing the failure of Colorado to provide a dependable source of supply during <br />the summer months of production, <br /> <br />While the damage to Colorado's reputation in the marketplace for dependability is not <br />as readily detectable in potatoes as it is in the other crops, it still has the same effect. <br /> <br />Any incidence of hail on the potatoes does have a disastrous effect on production, <br />size and quality of the potatoes produced, Paramount for the buyer is the need to find <br />------ -- - -- --a depenoaole-s-outce-or-supp1yi(rrahfgh-qmrtity-putlrto'DfihereCoIIlIIlenue-d-size~- - - --- - - . - - <br /> <br />6, The technical and scientific feasibility of the project has been demonstrated by its <br />usage in other countries and also by its usage in the United States, This technology is <br />being employed in the Clovis, MN area at the present time and is accepted by the <br />growers in that area as both a scientific and a technically feasible way of protection, <br /> <br />7. The project has no risk of harm to land, water, property or the environment. The <br />cannon depends upon the usage of sound to carry out its purpose in protecting <br />against the formation of ice particles and therefore to surrounding areas. Installation <br />is designed to reduce the sound emanating, In the instances in where the hail cannon <br />is placed in proximity ofless than a mile to surrounding, sparsely patterned <br />residences, the cannon has been recessed into the ground so that the sound generated <br />may be diverted upward in a vertical manner rather than being dispersed horizontally <br />thereby, reducing the sound to surrounding residential area. In the instance of <br />concrete conical recession has been placed in the ground recessing the entire <br />mechanism for sound production into the soil and thereafter there has been erected a <br />barrier of straw bales 8 feet horizontal frame of reference and 8 feet on the vertical <br />frame of reference and thereafter 4 feet in the horizontal and 8 feet in the vertical <br />plane to the point that the sound is dispersed upward manner so that it not offensive <br />to the surrounding residents. <br /> <br />8, The project has engaged the services of Dr, Dennis Fleisher ofMusonics, 30256 <br />Butte Dr., Golden, Co. 80403, a sound engineer, to observe and furnish a report to the <br />operators of the project. Dr. Fleisher (pHD in Physics) has been on the site and has <br />furnished technical observations as to how to structure the sound protection barrier. <br />After completion of sound protection barriers, he will furnish a report as to the <br />intensity of the sound at varying points, The sound protection barrier is designed to <br />reduce the sound within 400 feet of the location of the cannon. The lessor of the land <br />lives within a reasonable approximate area to the location of two ofthe cannons, <br />those erected in the area most approximate to population within 1 mile and in the <br />