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SMI: Cypress Mountain,Vancouver, BC Chosen by the Vancouver Olympic Committee as the official freestyle skiing and snowboarding venue for the 2010 Olympic games, Cypress Mountain needed to secure the ability to produce between a half meter and a meter of snow during a 50 to 100 hour time frame. The unique challenge of the project resulted from the resort’s high elevation and location near the Pacific Ocean, exposing it to extreme precipitation conditions ranging from horrific rainfalls to very cold conditions with no precipitation at all. This required designing and building the surface water intake to accommodate huge flow swings, with the reservoir sized accordingly. A variable speed, constantly adjusting fill pumping station was installed with automatically controlled flow based on water availability to maintain minimum stream flow rates. Cypress now boasts a turnkey, state-of-the-art, fully automatic and high-density snowmaking solution using both carriage and tower mounted Super PoleCats, with the capability of blanketing the slopes with one meter of snow in two days of cold conditions. The comments by users do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editors. The editorial staff reserves the right to delete comments that civil or criminal rules violate the morality or otherwise the reputation of the media can harm. In this case, the user can not raise claims. As a poster you are liable for all of your published articles and can also use the courts to be held accountable. Furthermore, Seilbahn.net reserves to damages claims and to bring the law to show.