Upper Gallatin Drought/Water Supply Focus Group 9/21 Meeting
Mitigation and Response Suggestions
These suggestions were compiled from discussions in previous Focus Group meetings and also from Big Sky Sustainable Water Solutions Forum’s water supply breakout group discussions.
Tool/Strategy / Type (water restriction programs, rate structures, data, education/outreach, voluntary, incentives, monitoring) / Link to specific vulnerabilities / Any related actions already being implemented by community?Monitoring/forecasting drought indicators ex. Snowpack,streamflows / monitoring / Reduced sp levels & negative environmental /social/economic impacts / Lone Mountain Snotel site, continuous monitoring stations,
Understanding groundwater storage limitations / Monitoring, education, data / Reduced storage capacity have high environmental and social impacts / MBMG study, GWIC database
Development planning with conservation at the forefront / Water restriction programs, education, incentives / GW storage capacity to service future municipal and domestic needs, wildfire impacts / Preliminary meetings with developers
Other applications of treated wastewater / Restriction programs, incentives / Increase supplies to surface flows / Golf course application
Public information on our water resources, climate change and impacts, awareness of need to conserve / Education/outreach, voluntary, incentives / Water conservation can reduce impacts from all vulnerabilities and promote resilience / Big Sky Water Conservation
Upper Gallatin Focus Group
BS Sustainable Water Solutions Forum
Graywater systems for reuse in residential/commercial operations / incentives / Increase surface and potentially groundwater supplies
Develop more green infrastructure, including water demand offsets and off-site mitigation / Incentives, water restriction programs / Increase surface and potentially groundwater supplies
Expand water metering / Incentives, voluntary, water restriction programs, education / Increase surface and potentially groundwater supplies
HOAs and water conservation / Incentives, voluntary, water restriction programs, education / Water conservation can reduce impacts from all vulnerabilities and promote resilience / BSOA cooperation to distribute BSWC information
Instream flow mitigation credits / Incentives, water restriction programs, data / Water conservation can reduce impacts from all vulnerabilities and promote resilience / FWP Murphy’s rights to protect fish, no credits though
Strengthen stormwater requirements for future developments / Incentives, water restriction programs / Water conservation can reduce impacts from all vulnerabilities and promote resilience
Tiered water pricing / Water restriction programs / Water conservation can reduce impacts from all vulnerabilities and promote resilience / BSWSD implements
Expand Rebate programs and incentives / Water restriction programs, incentives, voluntary, education / Water conservation can reduce impacts from all vulnerabilities and promote resilience / Big Sky Water Conservation residential programs, commercial underway
Upper Gallatin Drought/Water Supply Focus Group 9/21 Meeting
Small Group Brainstorming: Mitigation and Response Strategies
1. Identify a tool or strategy and describe how it will provide resilience against drought conditions, and water supply and availability concerns. How does this tool or strategy benefit our community and watershed environmentally, economically, and/or socially?
2. Circle strategy type (okay to circle more than one)
Education & Outreach IncentivesWater Restriction ProgramsRate Structures Monitoring Data Collection
3. How feasible is this tool or strategy? Consider costs, community support, technology, data, and implementation needs.
4. Describe any challenges or unknowns to this tool or strategy. Consider costs, community support, technology, data, and implementation needs.