The project is designed to provide more year-round snow and water to Northwest Colorado's Yampa River Basin. The program is expected to be funded through a grant from CWCB, with the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District serving as the fiscal agent.
The pilot is being coordinated with the Colorado River District and the CWCB and is designed to increase snowfall and rain in the Flat Tops Mountain range of the Rockies. This area feeds Stagecoach and Yamcolo Reservoirs, two of the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District's primary water supply facilities.

RET's WETA platform uses a ground-based ionization process rather than traditional chemical-based cloud seeding, operates autonomously without aircraft or chemical dispersal, and functions year-round rather than being limited to sub-freezing conditions. In a comparable, independently monitored installation in Utah's La Sal Mountains this past winter, RET measured a 20% snow water equivalent (SWE) increase, equivalent to roughly 8,750 acre-feet. This was over the winter operating season only, with warm rain enhancement operations now underway to provide further increases. Applied to the Flat Tops coverage area, expected to span approximately 120 square miles, RET estimates the pilot could generate over 10,000 additional acre-feet of water in an average precipitation year.

RET offers flexible lease-to-own and purchase options for the WETA platform that is available to Upper Yampa upon completion of the pilot program.

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