WMOD00227

• Applicant: Western Weather Consultants
• Project Name: San Juan Mountains
• Date: 12/1/1980
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

8. Operational Plan (cont)

features, and synoptic meteorological features \oIill determine the

network of geuerators which will bQst seed the cloud systems over

the project area for each situation and wi 11 provide a method for

adjusting the net','ork as new ",'eathQr information bQcomes available.

With a "best" ini tial net",'ork to seed a .si tuation established, .

the generator oP'i'rators are telephoned to turn on their generators

at a specified time and run them at a specific burn rate. On the

same cal1 they will be given a specific turn-off time which could

be subject to change by another phone call from the meteorologist

at l~estern l~eather Consultants, Inc. Incoming weather data into

the forecast office allows a continuous monitoring of any changes

in conditions ~nd any necessary adjustments or termination in the

seeding operation. There wHl "Iso be liaison between the

meteorological control office and the program participants and

field m~intenance technicians located near the project areas as

to any developing conditions that may warrant a change in the

seeding 'operation.

.d. Any expected effects upon the environment resulting from the pro-

posed project and the methods of deten~iniI1g and evaluating those

effects.

Based upon the results of other similiar wintertime programs that

have operated in Coforado and our own experience, this project does

not involve any high degree of risk of substantial hat~ to the land,

people, safety, property, health or the environment.

Based upon personal research findings and other research findings .',

of programs operated to increase snowpacks from about 15 to 25 percent,

in the San Juan Mountains and other <.olorado mountains during a,

similiar three to four month period,' the additional water supply pro-

duced from the proposed progra~ will have multiple agricultural,

domestic and industrial uses for those regions in and dovnstream of

the Project Area. The anticipated ch~nge6 in the precipitation amounts

in the project area would fall within the natural annual variation of

precipitation expect possibly during a very heavy winter snow season

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