SAJB Meeting 3/23/06

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SPOKANE AQUIFER JOINT BOARD AGENDA

March 23, 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 Scope of Work and Contract – Letter from President Wick

4.  NEW BUSINESS

  • Wellhead Implementation Budget
  • Election of Officers (October 2003)
  • Conservation Committee
  • Contract with Retired and Senior Volunteer Program to assist with Saturday Household Contaminant Turn-in events

5.  WELLHEAD PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

  • Committee Reports
    • ProActive Business – 185 letters/mailers to 2005 IGC participants sent March 3; BMP manual being distributed on CD – if you have a medical or dental or veterinary facility in your district, call Julia to get copies to provide to them. Ecology completed 23 IGC visits in February.  Most follow up visits, and most facilities improved practices at their facilities. They are near completion of going into auto repair facilities, printing, dry cleaners, auto body, etc.  They will be starting visits to dentists, medical clinics, vet facilities and finishing up on the hospitals in Spokane County
    • Potential Contaminant Source Inventory Update – County contractor representative Reanette Boese will describe updates to list for 2006 mailing, and requested purveyor response
    • Household Contaminant Disposal – April Household Contaminant Turn-in Saturdays; all events 11-3 at the following Fire Stations:  April 1 Liberty Lake, April 8 Otis Orchards, None April15 – (Easter), April 22 6303 E. Sprague, April 29 Millwood.  Stop in if you can!  Look/listen for general TV & radio spots and specific print ads announcing these events
    • Education & Awareness – Aqua Duck Comic Book Issue #2 is available.  .  Yvonne Pettit, IDEQ Environmental Programs, reports the school folders are a big hit in the Idaho schools.  A Pocatello school district is copying the idea!  SAJB Booth will be set up and staffed at Riverfront Park, Gondola Meadows on Earth Day, April 22nd.  If you can spare a couple hours to be at the booth, the citizens will love you for it
    • Website – total website sessions for Feb 2006 = 1447;
    • 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

Guest speaker:  Mr. Jim Bellaty, Water Quality Division Manager, Department of Ecology, will address the Spokane River TMDL process

 1) Kootenai County Aquifer Protection efforts – per Dick Martindale: “The draft legislation to form an Aquifer Protection District (HB 650a) was modified to require an election to determine whether or not the proposed district shall be established. A majority vote is required. It passed the House unanimously, and has been sent to the Senate Resources and Environment committee.”

2) ID/WA Aquifer Study – URL for the bibliography for the aquifer studies that have been done in the past.

USGS Web page:  https://wa.water.usgs.gov/projects/svrp/
Idaho Department of Water Resources Web page:  https://www.idwr.idaho.gov/hydrologic/projects/svrp/

3) REMINDER:  Ecology is soliciting public comment on the revised Formal Draft Phase II Municipal Stormwater Permit for Eastern Washington through May 19, 2006.  PUBLIC WORKSHOP In Spokane: Thursday, April 13, 2006, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Spokane Public Health District, Room 140 (Auditorium), 1101 West College Avenue hosted by Ecology.  The purpose of the workshop is to explain the permit, to inform participants of how this draft of the permit has changed from the previous draft of the permit, and to answer questions.  Ecology will not accept formal oral testimony or comments on the Draft Permit or Fact Sheet at the public workshops. The formal draft permit can be downloaded at: https://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/stormwater/eastern_manual/index.html; printed copies can be obtained by contacting jenh461@ecy.wa.gov. Send written comments to EasternComments@ecy.wa.gov or to:  Department of Ecology, Water Quality Program, Municipal Stormwater Permits, P.O. Box 47696, Olympia WA 98504-7696, Fax: (360) 407-6426.

4) Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) March 9 meeting attended by Dave Enos, SIP

5) Aquifer Protection Council – next meeting @ Ecology is Tuesday March 21, 2:00 p.m.

Julia is out of office Friday March 24 through Friday March 31.  Back Monday April 3. 

6.  OPEN DISCUSSION

ADJOURN