SAJB Meeting 5/27/04

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SPOKANE AQUIFER JOINT BOARD AGENDA

May 27, 2004  –  1:30 PM

Vera Water & Power 601 North Evergreen Road

1.  CALL TO ORDER

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

  • Review and Approve Bills

3.  OLD BUSINESS

  • Aquifer quantity study by Washington-Idaho-US Geological Survey
  • Virtual Field Trip 1 Maintenance Agreement

4.   NEW BUSINESS

  • Resolution 2004-03 Contract with Graphic Artist for Comic/Coloring Book
  • Resolution 2004-04 Contract with CH2M-Hill for professional services.

5.   WELLHEAD PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

  • Committee Reports
  • ProActive Business – April IGC Business Visit report attached.  Per Camille Martin, “We are right now on our fact finding mode.  We will be gathering information on Hospitals for most the month and may go into June.  We will be going through the internet to find information on hospital waste management practices, what hospitals are discharging to the sewer or septic, hazardous materials used and if there are alternatives that are less toxic, etc.. We will be reading through the materials and writing an outline and bibliography.”
  • Potential Contaminant Source Inventory Update – eight Districts left to provide corrections to candidate list for return to contractor
  • Household Contaminant Disposal –no news
  • Education & Awareness – following approval of contract, comic/color book artist to begin work; creation of Virtual Field Trip for youngsters progressing; presentation to Spokane Rental Association 5/18; crane removal of Pasadena Park pump from Well #1 captured on video by KDK One
  • Website –  total website sessions for April 2004  = 1768
  • Emergency Planning – no news
  • PROGRAM LEADER REPORT – Julia McHugh

a) ID/WA Aquifer Study – attended first Policy Advisory Committee mtg 5/19; PAC majority agreed that they do not want to take money from the study account for public information/public involvement activities.  They acknowledged that there is no budget and no staff dedicated to this effort, so plans will need to be realistic and minimal.  Use respective agency/organization Web sites to link to the aquifer site, a thorough coverage by IDWR – view at: www.idwr.state.id.us/hydrologic/projects/svrp Julia’s tasks: Create a graphic image for handouts, list serve communiqués, etc, pursue possible development of K-12 curriculum using information from study

b) Aquifer Atlas reprinting – schedule: 6/23 review of second draft by Atlas Team, 7/16 pre-publication draft to printer, 8/6 printing complete

c) Interagency Groundwater Committee – next meeting June 3, Yakima; sample of agenda: Upper Yakima GW Study, Perchlorate in Umatilla GWMA, Odessa Aquifer Status

d) Model run by CH2MHill – if any Districts need wellhead capture zone delineation modeling done,  and want to reduce costs, please call Joe Foote at CH2MHill at 747-2000.  Currently one SAJB member signed up.

e) Fluoridation – engineers presentation to SAJB members 5/18; on 5/13/04 WA Supreme Court reverses Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health ability to mandate fluoridation of municipal water districts and private water purveyors

6.  OPEN FORUM

 7.  ADJOURN