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Denver Water in partnership with will be helping clouds produce greater amounts of snowfall this winter.
Denver Water and the resort will be seeding moisture-laden clouds with silver iodide particles released into the sky to increase snowfall.
Seeding clouds has long been a practice of Vail Resorts, but this will be the first year is buying into the procedure.
Joe Busto of the Colorado Water Conservation Board calls the partnership history-making.
“We have never had a 50-50 water manager-ski area program before,” he said. “It’s what I’ve been hoping for for many, many years.”
It and Denver Water are sharing the $110,000 cost of the project, which will take place in locations within 35 miles of the ski area.
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