Lawton is seeking permission to hire a cloud-seeding company to increase rainfall in the area.
The Lawton Constitution reports that the city should learn on April 21 if the Oklahoma Water Resources Board will give them permission to go ahead with a contract with a cloud-seeding company. The company uses chemicals to enhance rain clouds' ability to produce moisture.
The contract is slated to run from April 1 to Aug. 31.
The resources board has the authority to decide if groups that want conduct weather modifications can do their work, and it can give people who might be affected by the modifications the opportunity file comments. Those comments are considered before a final decision is made.
City officials say the board hasn't authorized a weather-modification plan in two decades.
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