Show Finally 1966 Going To Do Da Something About Weather 1966 could well be the year talk more than that people do Sen Frank FrankE about the weather said recently Utah D-Utah E E. E Moss variety of research that the conducted In being projects Utah and other states to gain more mor information about the weather should produce some basic information which can be translated into new we weather at her modification programs to benefit bene- bene fit it all of oC the arid and West SEN MOSS said that Uta Utah h State University at Logan is involved in weather primarily modification experiments e n t s at this time Is working on a Department of the Interior grant to conduct studies of oC telemetry as applied to autom tation measuring and reporting networks Once equipment Is adequately adequate adequate- ly developed Sen Moss said a dense network of oC automatic precipitation measuring and andre andre- reporting re- re porting stations will be established established along the Wasatch Front between Ogden and Salt Lake City IN A PLANNED experiment a statistically designed cloud seeding program will be under under- taken A network of ten automatic automatic auto auto- matic silver iodide cloud seeding seeding seed seed- ing generators be located at al valley and top mountain sites to be operated selectively under under un- un der radar surveillance to affect af- af feet individual individuals individual's storms tor m s' s as fronts and cloud banks pass across the seeding and reporting reporting report report- ing network Sen Moss said The Utah Democrat has beer been informed that the operation of of the cloud seeding generators will be such as to permit the division of this limited precipitation precipitation tation network into treated and untreated areas THIS CLOUD seeding program program pro pro- gram will be conducted on a small scale so that the scientists scientists and technicians can observe observe ob- ob serve and record the e effects of oC seeding conducted at various altitudes Sen Moss has beer been Informed A contract with has beer been negotiated which will provide about for the current fiscal year to support this experimental experimental ex- ex program Sen Moss said that weather modification will provide the nece necessary s s r y technology with which the arid and regions of the world can selectively SQ se place precipitation on where it will do the most good I HE CONTINUED IAn An additional addi- addi inch of precipitation inthe in inthe the Upper Colorado River Basin should produce about feet acre of stored water in Lake Powell Weather caHon combined with b better management of existing supplies supplies sup sup- plies of water evaporation suppression suppression sup sup- use re-use of waste wa- wa and of ent supplies with surplus surplus water from other river basins will wUl be be needed to assure OUr water needs for future generations |