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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20180510_CWDACminutesAlways working for a safer and healthier community 615 Sheridan Street Port Townsend, WA 98368 www.JeffersonCountyPublicHealth.org Community Health Environmental Health Developmental Disabilities Water Quality 360-385-9400 360-385-9444 360-385-9401 (f) (f) 360-379-4487 Jefferson County Clean Water District Advisory Council Pacific Room, Jefferson County Public Health 615 Sheridan Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368 Thursday, May 10, 2018, 3:00 to 4:30 pm Attending: Michael Dawson, David Steele, David Sullivan, Richard Hull, Richard Wojt, Trevor Swanson, Wendy Clark-Getzin Absent: Al Cairns, Amy Leitman, Deborah Stinson Staff: Brad Stone, Cassandra Allen The meeting was called to order at 3:05 pm by Mike Dawson. AGENDA AND MINUTES APPROVAL Wendy Clark-Getzin moved to approve the meeting agenda. David Steele seconded the motion. No further discussion. The motion was unanimously approved. David Steele moved to approve the meeting minutes for May 10, 2018. Richard Hull seconded the motion. No further discussion. The motion was unanimously approved. STRAIT PRIORITY AREAS PROGRESS REPORT & PORT TOWNSEND RESULTS This is a Centennial Clean Water Project that covers the Discovery Bay area including the city of Port Townsend with Brad Stone as the lead. Brad completed wet season sampling and created a presentation highlighting the results. Port Townsend is not a Phase 1 or 2 municipality and so does not monitor stormwater under a NPDES permit. However, since JCPH samples all shoreline flows this project sampled Port Townsend stormwater. Discharges included stormwater drains, drains from rooftops, and pipes that were found to be connected to basement sump pumps. A table was shown showing the confirmed hot spots and their locations. Once there is more data JCPH will sit down with the city to discuss the issues contributing to the high hits and hot spots. The MRC is in the process of retrofitting another rain garden in downtown Port Townsend. DUCKABUSH AND BLACK POINT RESULTS This is part of the Central Hood Canal PIC project in the area of the Hood Canal #3 shellfish downgrade with Anna Bachmann as the lead. Overall, water quality in the winter has been good. There are hot spots at the end of Black Point at Basalt Point that are being investigated. Anna has a float trip scheduled with Fish and Wildlife in July to sample on the shoreline at the lower parts of the Duckabush and Dosewallips rivers. Anna has been finding pit privies during surveys and has been requiring the ones in the floodplain be decommissioned. Anna will be meeting with Michael Friese from DOH to coordinate efforts in the area. She is also sending out a fact sheet to homeowners in the area. Trevor Swanson relayed some recent data trends. He discussed the threatened areas and improvements that have happened between 2017 and 2018. Station 125 came down from 34 fecal coliform to 28. Station 136 came down and off of the threatened list. Station 137 has a decline from last year; it is now being sampled every month rather than every other month. QUILCENE RESULTS Tim Weissman printed out a data summary of Cemetery Drain, which has been a problem area within the Quilcene-Dabob PIC project as well as in past projects. The fecal coliform levels have been Page 2 of 2 decreasing in the last few years. Research has been done on 52 properties in the area and a new round of surveys is being done. There have been some land use changes as well as a Conservation District livestock exclusion fence and a buffer planting project in 2015. David Steele mentioned they are interested in seeing the approved growing area expanded further north on the east side of Quilcene Bay. A third sample station has been added, 321. They started sampling in October 2017 and are alternating months between DOH to prove there is no change between the two stations that are currently there. Mike mentioned there is also marine monitoring within Tim’s project and that there are no hot spots near station 321. Wendy Clark-Getzin mentioned that Public Works just received funding to repave part of Center Road in 2019 and that the project will include the area of the Cemetery Drain crossing. REVIEW DRAFT FOUNDATIONAL MONITORING PLAN An electronic copy of the draft Foundational Monitoring Plan was shown to the council by Dawson. The idea behind this plan is to determine what would be a base level monitoring program independent of grant funding that can be maintained annually. The plan would build off of the 2014 WQ Monitoring Plan and help inform the 2015 Prioritized Work Plan. The budget and cost analysis has not yet been added to the draft. The JCPH annual budget review begins in the summer. The plan would include a programmatic QAPP that would not need to be re-written for each new project. The coordination with other agencies is similar to the Closure Response Plan. The primary focus will be coordinating with DOH. The monitoring elements will focus on bacterial indicators within the chosen parameters. JCPH is proposing that marine sampling will not be done within this plan due to DOH doing it bi-monthly. Stream monitoring would be limited to the mouths of the major streams draining to shellfish beds. The focus of shoreline monitoring would be within the shellfish growing areas. Richard Wojt asked if the plan would identify the source of bacteria. Mike said the cost would be too much for the foundational monitoring, but that would be appropriate for special projects. For example, Brad has just started a second round of microbial tracking for his project area. David Steele asked how funding is after legislation passed the capitol budget. Mike stated that the two Centennial Projects are fully funded and are moving forward with the hope of getting them contracted in June. ANNOUNCEMENTS There were no announcements made. PUBLIC COMMENT: There was no public comment. ADJOURN: The meeting was adjourned at 4:25 p.m. by Mike Dawson.