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<br />DESCRIPTION OF WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES <br />IN OR NEAR WESTERN KANSAS <br /> <br />Weather modification activities were financed by the State of Kansas in 1972 and were <br />referred to as the Kansas Cumulus Cloud Project (KANCUP). These initial activities were <br />conducted out of Colby in Northwest Kansas. Subsequently, cloud seeding operations were <br />initiated within a sixty mile radius of Scon City from the latter months of 1973 and <br />concluded in September 1974. The following year, 1975, the Western Kansas Weather <br />Modification Program was put into operation and has carried out cloud seeding operations <br />each year. Under separate guidance, a cloud seeding operation was also conducted in <br />Northwest Kansas from 1975-1978, within a 90 mile radius of the City of Goodland. <br /> <br />Oklahoma has had a long history of conducting weather modification programs in the. <br />Northwestern Oklahoma counties of Texas, Beaver, Harper, Woods, Ellis and Woodward. <br />These programs were enacted during the drought of the 1950's, again in the 1960's and were <br />resumed in the 1970's. Some programs are still ongoing in Oklahoma, as of 1994. <br /> <br />In Colorado, cloud seeding operations were conducted along the South Platte River of <br />Northeastern Colorado in 1958 and 1959 and occurred in Northeastern Colorado from 1972- <br />1974 as part of the National Hail Research Experiment. Additional weather modification <br />activities were carried out within a 250 mile radius of Broomfield, Colorado from 1974- <br />1975. Also, cloud seeding operations were conducted in El Paso County from February <br />through April in 1978. <br /> <br />No known cloud seeding operations have occurred in Nebraska counties that are adjacent to <br />northwest Kansas counties. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />3 <br />