WSPC05170

• File Number: 8200.700
• Description: Colorado River Basin General Publications - Augmentation-Weather Modification
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/1/1977
• Author: NAIWMC
• Title: North American Interstate Weather Modification Council - Cooperative Planning Sessions - Colorado River Weather Modification Demonstration Project 1976-1977
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Dr. Harper, from Brigham Young University, is the sub-contractor doing

the work on an ecological study in the Uinta Mountains. The study area is

on the north slope of the Uintas near the east fork of the Black Forks River.

This. study was initiated jointly by the Bureau of Reclamation and the State

Division of Water Resources. The Bureau was interested in obtaining some

environmental baseline data that could be used in an EIS and we were interested

in the same thing. The Bureau is supplying the funds for the project under a

contract with the Division, and we have in turn contracted with Dr. Harper for

the field work and analysis. This study is planned to continue for three years.

c. Information Dissemination

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One of the major challenges of a weather modification program is to

convey information to the people about what is happening in the program, par-

ticularly in the operational projects. The challenge is not only to give them

the information, but do so in a manner in which it means something to them.

The Newsletter is the main tool in which we have used to disseminate informa-

tion. We have a mailing list of approximately 600 interested parties for this

publication. In the Newsletter, we have tried to print articles that would not

only inform the reader, but teach him about the technology of weather modifica-

tion. I would appreciate receiving names and addresses from any of you who

would like to receive the monthly Newsletter.

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d. Technical Advisory Committee

The Division of Hater Resources does not employ a large staff of

people to administer the State's Weather Modification Program. I am the co-

ordinator on a three-quarter time basis, and I have a one-half time secretary,

and a meteorology student working through the summer as my aide. My academic

training is in Civil Engineering, and a year ago, the closest that I had come

to meteorology was watching the weather on the 6:00 and 10:00 P.M. news.

Therefore, we felt we needed the advice of some experts to guide our decisions

in the weather modification field. Therefore our Director, Daniel F. Lawrence

extended invitations to fourteen individuals in both governmental service and

private enterprise to serve on a technical advisory committee. The committee

is comprised of representatives from the Federal landlords and Federal agencies

with interest in weather - Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and

Reclamation, National Park, and Soil Conservation Service, and representatives

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