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Annual Retreat
July 12-13, 2001
Winter Park Mountain Lodge, Colorado


Group Memory

Thursday, July 12

9: 30 a.m. Introductions
Agenda Review and Agreement

10:00 a.m. Issues Scan
Review and clarify issues
Add additional issues (if needed)

11:00 a.m. Geoff Grubbs, E.P.A. Headquarters
Director, Office of Standards and Technology
New Priorities and Direction

Noon Lunch

1:00 p.m. Stakeholder Perspectives (15 minutes/perspective):

1) 1-2 hot issues concerning water quality
2) Identify any issues on Issues List that are of particular interest

Agriculture - Mike Monell, Colorado Farm Bureau
Industry - Jerry Raisch, Vranesh & Raisch
Environmental Community
    -Chuck Wanner, Friends of the Poudre
    -Melinda Kasson, Trout Unlimited
Regional Water Quality Planning Agency
    - Russell Clayshulte, DRCOG
    - Robert Ray, Northwest Colorado Council of Governments

2:30 Break

2:45 Stakeholder Perspectives: Municipal Issues

Municipal Wastewater
    -Tim Grotheer, CO Wastewater Utility Council
Water Supplier - Sara Duncan, Denver Water
    -Karen Wogsland, Thornton
Storm Water Discharges- Kevin McBride

3:45 Water Quality Control Division - David Holm

4:00 Wrap up/Observations

4:30 Adjourn

6:00 Dinner

7:00 After-dinner presentation, Chris Gates, National Civic League President and Advisory Board Member, "The Mind of Colorado"

Friday, July 13, 2001

7:30 Continential Breakfast

8:30 Nutrient Management Strategy
    -Todd Harris, Metro Wastewater
    -Dave Holm

9:15 WQF Work Plan for 2001 - 2002

Prioritize/Triage issues for consideration, e.g.:
a. Monitoring and updates needed
b. Working Group/Action Needed
c. Issue not priority at this time

11:00 Identify ongoing and new WQF Work Groups

11:30 WQF Business Matters

- WQF meeting dates for 2001 - 2002
- Financial Status Report
- Reconstitute Executive Committe
- Overall WQF Improvements

12:15 Box lunches/working lunch
        - Working group meeting schedules and topics

1:15 Adjourn

Groundrules

• One person talk at a time
  
• No personal attacks
  
• Listen for understanding rather than disagreement
  
• Speak up about disagreements/no surprises/O.K. to disagree
  
• Misery is optional! (We can change the agenda, take more breaks, etc.)
  
• No talking about the Grand Junction meeting!

 

2001 ANNUAL RETREAT ISSUES

1. 2000 CWQF work groups:

a. Surface Water Basic Standards Implementation (Paul Frohardt)

b. TMDL/303(d) issues (Phil Hegeman)

c. Stormwater Phase II (Pat Nelson, Kathy Dolan)

d. Nonpoint Source Funding (Greg Parsons)

e. Permit Implementation "Reasonable Potential"(Dave Akers, Susan Nachtrieb)

f. Ammonia Criteria (Tad Foster)

g. Nutrient Criteria (Dave Holm, Ronda Sandquist)

2. Upcoming Water Quality Control Commission rulemaking hearings:

a. Lower Colorado, Gunnison, San Juan Basins water quality standards revisions (7/01).

b. Basic Standards for Ground Water revisions (10/01).

c. Arequa Gulch water quality standards (11/01).

d. Microsemi site ground water quality standards (08/02).

e. DIMP standards revisions (02/02).

f. Arkansas/Rio Grande Basins water quality standards revisions (7/02).

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