Water Quality Committee Meeting Summary
Terry Willis,
Margaret Rader, Kahle Jennings, Dan Meier, Lee Napier, Ron Schillinger, Nancy
Allison, Dave Rountry, Brian Peck, Bob Amrine,
Terry Willis welcomed
everyone and asked each person to introduce themselves.
Revisions to the Water
Quality Standards
Susan Braley
reviewed the presentation from Monday’s workshop with the group. The presentation covered the history of the
rule making, EPA’s role, proposed changes that are out for comment, EPA main
problems with the 2003 proposal, and EPA’s analysis and criteria. She also had a copy of the documents related
to the revision available for review.
People could sign up to request their own copy.
Ecology hopes to receive comments related
to fish use that is different than mapped by Ecology. Comments related to impacts on permitting, TMDLs, or other future actions could also be submitted.
Susan also
announced a call for data related to the 2006 303(d) list. She pointed out that the 303(d) list is now
called the Category 5 list. All data
must be compatible with the EIM database, housed at Ecology. They are offering training during September
to help people with data submittal.
Randy will try to attend.
Water Quality Monitoring
Coordination
Randy updated the
group regarding the establishment of a coordinated water quality monitoring
program. He will be working, in the very
near future, with a variety of stakeholders to determine the data needs and
parameters to monitor along with the types of questions to answer.
He asked the
group to start thinking about long term goals for this program. Should we focus on collecting water quality
information relevant to informing stakeholders?
Another long term goal to consider is GIS integration and synthesizing of
the data along with entry of new data.
Once Randy
settles the contract issues for this project, he will begin working with the
Committee.