SAJB Meeting 12/20/01

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SPOKANE AQUIFER JOINT BOARD AGENDA

December 20, 2001 – 1:30 PM

Vera Water & Power  601 North Evergreen Road

1.  CALL TO ORDER

2.  FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT – Steve Skipworth, Treasurer

  • Approve Bills

3.  OLD BUSINESS

  • Extension of Contract with Spokane County for Potential Contaminant Source Inventory
  •  SAJB 2002 Implementation Budget
  •  Designation of “Alternate” Board Members for voting

4.  NEW BUSINESS

5.  WELLHEAD PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

  •  Committee Reports
  •  Program Leader Report – Julia McHugh

a)  Ecology Business Assistance Report – draft, but not final report of work accomplished in 2001.  Ms. Camille Martin will present the final at the January SAJB meeting.

b)  Meeting w/County Emergency Services 12/04/01 – submitted suggested changes to Emergency Response Comprehensive Plan, which includes notification of Water Districts through City Water and a second central number.

c) Free to AWWA members: video entitled “Security Risk Assessments for Water Utilities,”  a record of the Nov. 27 teleconference including an overview of the following topics:  Performance-based security risk assessment process,  how to employ security technologies effectively, tools used to support the assessment process, understanding the performance of security systems, lessons learned from utility assessments, how to get started with security upgrades.

d) Washington Citizen Advisory Committee WCAC – cleanup of heavy metals contamination in the Spokane / Coeur d’Alene Basin, 12/17 meeting on aspects of EPA proposed cleanup plan; development of public comments for submission to EPA

e) Friends of the Aquifer – 12/10 meeting re: Cogentrix appeal process

f) Question from website following 11/11/01 earthquakes – any danger of aquifer water draining away?

g) EWU student requesting copy of our ‘Newsreel’ tv spot for project involving aquifer contaminates and ways the community can be involved in safeguarding our natural resource.

h) Summary of November Groundwater Conference with references and resources for Water Districts attached.

i) Repeated suggestion @ conference that Spokane again become a Groundwater Guardian Community – based upon SAJB efforts, we already qualify (i.e. no additional work required beyond existing SAJB programs); designation tends to add the status of national recognition.

6.  ADJOURN