SAJB Meeting 4/27/06

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SPOKANE AQUIFER JOINT BOARD AGENDA

April 27, 2006  –   1:30 PM

Pasadena Park Irrigation District      9227 E Upriver Drive

 1.  CALL TO ORDER

2.  FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT – Steve Skipworth, Treasurer – Mary McIntyre, Accountant

  • Review and Approve Bills

3.  OLD BUSINESS

  • Aquifer quantity study by Washington-Idaho-US Geological Survey
  • Aquifer Protection Council
  • 2006 Program Leader Contract
  • Conservation Committee

4.  NEW BUSINESS

  • Nominations for Officers
  • Wellhead Regulatory Process and Wellhead Protection Area Designations – description & comments received attached

5.  WELLHEAD PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

  • Committee Reports
    • ProActive Business – Ecology completed 18 IGC visits in March.  Intern sponsorship is going on hiatus until new project effort initiated.  Reminder! Best Management Practices manual available on CD – if you have a medical or dental or veterinary facility in your district, call Julia to get copies to them. See attached news release announcing BMP guide & national award for this work
    • Potential Contaminant Source Inventory Update –presentation of PCSI to Local Emergency Planning Committee by Reanette and Bea, to familiarize emergency responders with database and GIS capabilities and encourage thinking towards regional PCSI; draft response received from Michael Barber, Director WSU Water Research Institute and Gary Johnson, Idaho Water Resources Research Institute to explore undertaking a regional PCSI;
    • Household Contaminant Disposal – April Household Contaminant Turn-in Saturdays; all events 11-3 at the following Fire Stations:  April 1 Liberty Lake, .75 T collected (1500#),   April 8 Otis Orchards, .19T collected (380 #) None on April15 – (Easter), April 22 6303 E. Sprague, ~.48T collected (~950#), April 29 Millwood.  Thus far, waste breakout appears to be: 2/3 paint products,1/6 automotive products,1/6 landscape products
    • Education & Awareness –SAJB Booth will be set up and staffed at Riverfront Park, Gondola Meadows on Earth Day, April 22nd, from 11 to 3.  Aqua Duck will be at the City’s Water Stewardship kickoff event at Riverfront Park Friday May 3, 12 – 3.  For your use – ~Y1999  Aerial views of valley in digital file format for use in Aquifer Powerpoint presentations – call Julia if you’d like copies,or for copies of Aqua Duck comic book Issue #2.  Initial work begun on updating placemat map, and garnering cost-sharing partners – Lawton Printing is donating excess paper
    • Website – total website sessions for March 2006 = 1534
    • Emergency Planning – repeat information:  Contact Sheriff’s Deputy Greg Snyder 477-2592 or Deputy Travis Pendell 477-6044, if you wish to have an on-site review of your facility to improve system security.
  • PROGRAM LEADER REPORT – Julia McHugh

Ms. Chelsea Wood, City of Spokane, will brief on City’s Water Stewardship campaign kickoff May 5, 6

 Guest Speaker:  Mr. Mike Kuntz, Conoco-Phillips Facility Manager, to discuss tank modification and upgrades, 20-year Amer. Petrol. Institute inspections, and pipeline topics

 1)  Kootenai County – BNSF has contributed $100,000 to a Supplemental Environmental Project in lieu of a fine.  The Panhandle Health District project was chosen, and will be granting the money to fueling stations towards required upgrades on fuel island stormwater/fuel containment (canopy/oil-water separators discharging to swales/ etc.)

 2) ID/WA Aquifer Study – Meeting with Guy Gregory 4/5 to discuss accuracy of purveyor data incorporated in to study; purveyors can expect individual district pumping data to be distributed by Reanette for review and editing

URL for the bibliography for the past aquifer studies USGS Web page:  https://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/svrp/
Idaho Dept of Water Resources Web page:  https://www.idwr.idaho.gov/hydrologic/projects/svrp/

3) Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) April 13 meeting attended by Dave Enos, SIP, and Julia introducing Reanette and Bea  who provided an informative presentation on the PCSI & GIS capabilities, in an effort to build advocacy for and participation in a regional PCSI

 4) Aquifer Protection Council –meeting @ Ecology April 18 –City and county Critical Materials Lists were discussed at length; Wellhead Capture Zones and Special Protection Zones were also discussed.  Idaho Panhandle Health and IDEQ updated aquifer protection legislation information and discussed vehicle washing issues.  Next APC mtg – May 16, 2:00 Ecology

 5)  Coeur d’Alene Water Resources Conference, Friday April 21 – Bill Rickard, City of Spokane Environmental Programs, will attend and summarize @ SAJB meeting

 6)  Model Irrigation –  Bureau of Reclamation grant work – telemetry system 90% installed and 1800+ radio meters installed, expected to improve ability to track water production and usage

 7)  May 25 Guest Speakers, Ms. Camille Martin, Ms Lisa Brown, Ecology Toxics Waste Reduction, to present the medical facility Best Management Manual

 6.  OPEN DISCUSSION

7.  ADJOURN