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Idaho Power briefs committee on cloud seeding: company cites expanded program, environmental studies and suspension criteria
Summary
Cresta Davis, senior manager for water resources at Idaho Power, told the committee the utility’s collaborative cloud seeding program aims to augment winter snowpack and improve water supply for irrigation, hydropower and other uses.
Cresta Davis, senior manager for water resources at Idaho Power, told the committee the utility operates a collaborative cloud seeding program aimed at augmenting winter snowpack and improving water supply for irrigation, hydropower and other uses.
Davis said Idaho Power’s program now includes 63 remote ground generators and three aircraft, and she described the program as a partnership among Idaho Power, the Idaho Water Resource Board and local water users. “On average, the annual benefits break down by basin,” Davis said, citing company estimates: about 240,000 acre-feet for the Boise Basin, roughly 100,000 acre-feet for the Wood River Basin, just over 600,000 acre-feet for the Upper Snake Basin and close to 200,000 acre-feet for the Payette Basin — a total the company described as just over 1…
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