Salt River Basin Team Meetings

Salt River Basin Team Meetings

Minutes

Team Meeting

Notes from October 27, 1999

Important things first - Chocolate was made available through out the meeting time. These included fun size bars of Hershey and Butterfinger, boxes of Milk Duds, individual bags of Whoppers, and individually wrapped York Peppermint Patties.

Objective 1: Kentucky Basin Assessment Report

Discuss the notes from the last meeting if necessary.

Determine if additional comments need to be submitted to Lee Colten and Kentucky RBT.

The basin team provided some additional comments on the Kentucky Report. Also, several requested copies of the report on the assessment methodology - priority formula information

Objective 2: Develop outline for Salt River Assessment Report

The SRBT will develop the outline for the report: What information is important when making management decisions? What do we need to know to set priorities? You may want to review the Management Framework document to determine what types of questions will need to be answered.

A strawman was provided to the team for comments. The strawman was a result of discussions at the last meeting based on the KRB format. The following outline was drafted.

Executive Summary - to stand alone separate from the actual document.

Insert Page of all of the background materials - where to find them and a brief description of what is in each of the documents.

Section 1

Intro/Background

·  What is a watershed?

·  What is watershed management?

·  Why is it important?

·  Describe the Framework and the cycle - briefly - reference documents.

·  What has been done to date?

·  Why was it done?

·  How will it be used in the Framework?

·  Where are we now? - The Assessment

Assessment

·  What are we assessing?

·  How is it done?

·  Why are we doing it?

·  How can it be used?

Environmental Setting

·  The Salt River Region

·  The data collection year (wet spring, dry summer, ? fall, ? winter, ? spring)

·  Discuss which issue stand out across the entire basin.

·  Identify average and extremes.

·  Compare areas of the region.

Section 2

HUCs

·  Describe how the HUCs are broken out

·  What is a HUC?

·  Include a table of the HUCs with some information.

·  Describe all of the maps and table that will follow in this section.

·  Describe how to interpret the data in this section.

Upper Salt River (divider page with map and brief description of the area)

First Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Physical description

·  Monitoring description

·  Monitoring table of sites (site ID, Site Name, Site Type only)

·  Photos, graphs, cartoons etc.

Second Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Map of the watershed with monitoring sites ID's

·  Assessment narrative

Repeat two pages for all HUCs in the Upper Salt River

Lower Salt River (divider page with map and brief description of the area)

First Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Physical description

·  Monitoring description

·  Monitoring table of sites (site ID, Site Name, Site Type only)

·  Photos, graphs, cartoons etc.

Second Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Map of the watershed with monitoring sites ID's

·  Assessment narrative

Repeat two pages for all HUCs in the Lower Salt River

Floyds Fork (divider page with map and brief description of the area)

First Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Physical description

·  Monitoring description

·  Monitoring table of sites (site ID, Site Name, Site Type only)

·  Photos, graphs, cartoons etc.

Second Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Map of the watershed with monitoring sites ID's

·  Assessment narrative

Repeat two pages for all HUCs in the Floyd Fork

Rolling Fork (divider page with map and brief description of the area)

First Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Physical description

·  Monitoring description

·  Monitoring table of sites (site ID, Site Name, Site Type only)

·  Photos, graphs, cartoons etc.

Second Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Map of the watershed with monitoring sites ID's

·  Assessment narrative

Repeat two pages for all HUCs in the Rolling Fork

MORTs (divider page with map and brief description of the area)

First Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Physical description

·  Monitoring description

·  Monitoring table of sites (site ID, Site Name, Site Type only)

·  Photos, graphs, cartoons etc.

Second Page

·  HUC Name and Number at the top

·  Map of the watershed with monitoring sites ID's

·  Assessment narrative

Repeat two pages for all HUCs in the MORTs

Section 3

·  Cross-referenced index of HUCs by County and Stream names & page numbers.

·  Glossary of terms and acronyms

·  Impact Tables

·  Predicted

·  Observed

Protection Tables

Use Tables

KPDES Discharge Permit Site Tables

Withdrawal Site Tables

Additional Monitoring Station Information

Site ID, Site Name, Site Type, Agency, Period of Record, other

Data Information

Web addresses for downloading base data files

·  QW

·  Biology

·  Landuse

·  ETC.

Section 4

Reference material for the Framework and Cycle

Reference material for the Priority Formula

Reference material for other information

Objective 3: Develop layout for Salt River Assessment Report

The SRBT will design the layout for the report: What format is the most user friendly for us to make decisions and for us to explain how we reached those decisions? Priorities?

Allison will develop another strawman and attempt to do one or two HUCs for the December 9th meeting. This will be based on the outline above and the comments from the team. Each member present was provided a table for the HUCs with each one named and numbered and the acreage and square miles indicated. Team members will begin to determine which HUC they would like to prepare the physical description and monitoring description for during the next few months. There are 71 HUCs so there will be plenty to go around. A template will be developed to help with this effort.

Objective 4: Progress of Outreach Activities

What is the status of each workgroup?

Do timelines need to be revised?

Do teams need to be revised?

Are there any special needs from the individual teams?

Not discussed today - but Allison showed copies of maps and documents used at Blackacre Nature Preserve outreach and she showed pictures taken at each of the state monitoring sites.

Allison also mentioned that Lee would like to have a write up on an activity in the basin done on a quarterly schedule. A list of possible newsletters to submit the articles to is being developed and information concerning deadlines for submission will be provided. Allison will work with the team to pick what things can and should be highlighted during each quarter. Different agency representatives can also submit individual articles for newsletters. Allison will handle the paperwork if the text is provided.

Schedule of Future Meetings

November/December joint meeting scheduled for THURSDAY, December 9, 1999 - Don't forget to plan to stay for Lunch beginning around 11:30am

Present for the Meeting:

Russ Barnett

Maleva Chamberlain

Angie Crain

Steve Gray

Jeff Jack

Pat Neichter

John Overing

Allison Shipp

Jerry Terhune

Roy Toney