SAJB Meeting 1/23/03

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SPOKANE AQUIFER JOINT BOARD AGENDA

January 23, 2003   –  1:30 PM

Vera Water & Power  601 North Evergreen Road

1.  CALL TO ORDER

2.  FINANCE COMMITTEE REPORT – Steve Skipworth, Treasurer – Kim Beal, Accountant

  • Review and Approve Bills

3.  OLD BUSINESS

  •  Aquifer quantity study by Spokane/Coeur d’ Alene Chambers
  • Virtual Aquifer Tour – Kim Foley – by meeting time, Virtual Field Trip ready for Website Committee review; original artwork completed and incorporated in to Trip

4. NEW BUSINESS

  • 2003 Committee Budgets

5.  WELLHEAD PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

  • Committee Reports
    • ProActive Business – budget & planning meeting held.
    • Potential Contaminant Source Inventory – wrap-up report anticipated for distribution at meeting
    • Household Contaminant Disposal – no activity
    • Education & Awareness –  KDK-1 has produced and distributed a TV and a radio spot for airing beginning 1/20, to run 6 and 8 weeks respectively;  Aqua Duck performances scheduled on Feb 27th at the MacDonald+Adams Science Fair, and March 22nd  as part of the Children’s Museum World Day of Water celebration.  Additional pencils purchased as giveaway materials.  SAJB booth at Ag Extension, Saturday April 12th, 10-4 p.m., part of  Master Gardener public Open House.  Restarted contacts with school districts re ranking the Virtual Field Trip and the Aqua Duck skit for the EALRs (Essential Academic Learning Requirements) for marketing the work to school curriculum specialists, principals and teachers.
    • Emergency Planning – no progress to report
  • PROGRAM LEADER REPORT – Julia McHugh

a)  Guest Speaker – Doug Rider, Chair, Spokane County Water Conservation Board

b) Attended Ecology Clean Water Fund and 319 Grant Workshop – tentative plan to apply for grant monies to map purveyor water sample results using GIS to generate a graphic, spatial tool to track water quality history and trends.  Possibility of creation of a kid’s GIS curriculum using these mapping tools and water quality data.

c) Members wanting to post individual district CCRs on web site? Any other information?

d) Watershed Planning  WRIA’s 55 and 57 – meeting summary from February 19th   (Ty, Steve, Susan).

e) County Critical Areas Ordinance – awaiting update on status

f)  Wellhead protection hard implementation items – Lloyd Brewer

g)  Washington Citizens Advisory Committee –  (per Lloyd Brewer) completed review of lake management plan addendum & will submit comments to Coeur d’Alene Tribe and Idaho DEQ.  Jan 27th meeting to provide comments in person or email to WCAC Technical Leadership Group to Basin Commission on workplans which  involve lake monitoring, info and education program, streambank stabilization proposals, upper basin sites for remediation, human health initiatives, including yard and recreation cleanup.  Proposal to do demo project on reducing infiltration of contaminated water in  Mullan’s Wastewater Treatment System.  Groundwater treatment demo project identified for Canyon Creek.

  • 6. ADJOURN