Licking River Basin Team Meeting Notes
September 5, 2006
Clark County Extension Office
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Prepared by: Lajuanda Haight-Maybriar
Announcements:
· The last Licking River Watershed Watch sampling event date for 2006 is:
o September 9
· Lajuanda will be conducting LRWW training September 7 for two new members of the Strodes Creek Conservancy. If you know of others who are interested in being trained, contact Lajuanda as soon as possible.
· Kentucky Nonpoint Source applications have been reviewed and ranked. No announcement yet. I will let you know as soon as I hear something official.
· The First Annual Regional Wetlands Restoration Institute will be held on September 10 – 15, 2006, at Olympia Springs, Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky. For more information, contact Anna Hoover at or 859-257-8637.
· The flyer for the Kentucky Waterways Alliance 319 project is available and attached. This project includes assisting a watershed(s) in the Licking or Salt River basins to develop a watershed based plan. If your watershed group or a group you know of is interested, please forward this info and respond to KWA.
· Watershed Steering Committee (WSC) meeting on September 28 at the Fish and Wildlife Game Farm classroom.
· Kentucky Waterways Alliance meeting on September 30 at Blue Licks State Park.
· Watershed Watch Interbasin Coordinating Committee meeting on October 1 at Midway College Dining Hall.
Updates:
· Strodes Creek – The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and their contractor conducted a field visit of the restoration area. The contractor will begin field measurements to complete a restoration design.
· Triplett Creek Group – The WSC Focused Watershed subcommittee selected Dry Creek as a HUC 14 with pathogen and/or nutrient impairment in a Source Water Protection Area. However, there were concerns expressed by the WSC regarding whether or not Dry Creek met the Source Water Protection criterion. Discussion will continue at the next WSC meeting.
· Gunpowder Creek Group – So. Fk. Gunpowder Creek was a potential candidate as a focused watershed selection by the WSC subcommittee, but it didn’t rank out as a top five priority across the state.
· Basin Status Report – topic of today’s meeting
Discussion:
· There was discussion of the original priority list developed by the Licking River Basin Team. Jon Walker will try to find a copy of the original list. If anyone else has this, please forward it to Lajuanda.
· The DOW Watershed Management Branch maintains a potential project list for each basin that can be used if funding is identified and must be appropriated quickly. There is only one Licking River Basin project on this list – Upper Hinkston Creek – watershed project. We need to develop a list of potential projects for this basin to be added to the list. The categories on the list are: Project Name; Basin; Waterbody Name; HUC number; County; Potential Project Lead Name; Potential Lead Project Organization; Project Objective; Estimated Cost; Secured Funding; 303d Status; TMDL Status; Watershed Based Plan Status; Time Frame for Project; Political Sensitivity; Strength/Reliability of Partners; Time Frame for Funding; Possible Vendor/Contractor. This is the type of information we will need for each project we propose to add to the list. What is the best way for us to accomplish putting together this list? Brainstorming by email was suggested.
· I have created a spreadsheet of the counties in the Licking River Basin and some of the programs, agencies, and legislators that cover each county. I am attaching this electronically for your use. If any mistakes are identified, please let me know so that I can correct them.
· We discussed the revisions and task assignments for continuing the update of the Basin Status Report. The following topics were discussed and/or reviewed:
o The Strodes Creek project write up by Shanda Cecil – some revisions were suggested
o A general template for the project write ups was decided upon:
§ One page narrative
· Description of watershed
· Problems faced in the watershed
· How the problems are being addressed
§ One page map of watershed
o The stream assessment map by Jon Walker –
§ How many more stream names?
§ How many priority basins highlighted? – will wait until after WSC meeting on 9/28 to decide
§ Add Cave Run Lake
§ Use a lighter shade of blue for the background
§ County line colors and thickness are ok as is
o Discussed what sections of the report are left to be revised for the update and who will we ask to do the revisions or write up:
§ How does land use affect watershed health? – Brooke
§ What are the water quality problems in the Licking River Region? – Lajuanda (waiting on finalized Integrated Report)
§ Water Quality of the Licking River Region map – Jon is working on it
§ What’s being done to improve water quality?
· Strodes Creek – Shanda
· Banklick Creek – Banklick Watershed Council
· Headwaters Area – Lajuanda
· Townsend Creek – Jadd
· Fleming Creek – Emily
· Cabin Creek - ?
§ Floods and Droughts – Marc
§ Licking River Watershed Watch – Lajuanda
§ Get Connected – Amy
§ Basin Team Members – Lajuanda
§ Cover - Jon
o We agreed we will send the report out for comment after the draft is completed. We will be sure to send it to some who haven’t been involved in the revisions.