WMOD00248

• Applicant: Western Weather Consultants
• Project Name: N. Central Mountains
• Date: 11/1/1979
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Application

8. Operational Plan (cont)

when seeding operations would be suspended. The natural stream systems

would be expected to adequately handle any natural and augmented

precipitation resulting from this project.

It normally takes several seasons of operations to gather
sufficient data to evaluate the precipitation changes within the
project area with a reasonable statistical degree of confidence. An
operational report will be furnished to the program participants and
the Director of Natural Resources following each seeding season in
which precipitation within the project area will be indicated with
any pertinent comments to comparisons with respect to normal or
precipitation in adjacent areas. This proposed program will be
operated nearly identical to programs operated by 1<estern Weather
Consultants, Inc, during the past four years in Colorado. Evaluations
of these programs have been made under contacts from the State of
Colorado to C.S.U. We would anticpate similiar evaluation results
from this proposed program.

e. Any additional information which may be required to describe the

operations and the proposed method of its evaluation.

Many design and operational features of this program have been

based upon the findings and experience learned through operating the

Bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Basin Pilot Project in the

Upper San Juan River Basin. The placement of ground-based

generators, identification of st01~ systems with favorable modifi-

cation potential and concern for public safety. and awareness through

responsible operations are specifically some of the refinements to be

incorporated into the proposed wintertime weather modification pro-

gram.

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