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Colorado Water Quality Forum Retreat
The Lodge and Spa at Breckenridge
June 27-28, 2005Monday, June 27, 2005
10: 00 a.m. Introductions
Agenda Review and Agreement
10:30 a.m. Issues Scan (see draft list at www.cwqf.org)
Review and clarify issues
Add additional issues (if needed)
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. EPA Headquarters: Watershed approach in the Context of the EPA Strategic Plan
---Joe Piotrowski, Director of Program Development, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds (on detail to Diane Regas, Director)
2:15 p.m. Break
2:30 p.m. Colorado’s Watershed Programs– Dick Parachini, WQCD
3:15 p.m. Local Watershed Approaches (10 minutes/each)
--Success and challenges in planning and implementing Watershed approaches
- Jane Clary, Wright Water Engineering, Big Dry Creek Watershed.
- Rich Muzzi, Fountain Creek Watershed
- Rob Buirgy, Big Thompson Watershed Forum
- Sheila Murphy, USGS Boulder Creek Watershed Forum
5:00p.m. Announcements, Tomorrow's Agenda
5:15 p.m. Adjourn
6:00 p.m. Reception and Dinner
Tuesday June 28, 2005
7:30 a.m. Breakfast Buffet
8:30 a.m. Start ups/Agenda Review
8:40 a.m. SB 276 Analysis: What worked? What do we need to do for 2006?
--Timeline of Events (Cindy Duffy)
--Develop and agree on a follow up strategy including role of WQF (if any) and its individual members
9:45 a.m. Break
10:00 a.m. Funding Strategy Continued
10:20 a.m. WQF Business Matters
- Overall WQF process refinement
- Financial Status Report
- WQF meeting dates for 2005-2006 (4th Monday of odd months?)
- Standing Committee Confirmation
- Website Evaluation10:45 a.m. Working Group Process
- Evaluation and expectations
11:15 a.m. WQCD Update (Dave Akers)
- Reorganization Strategy
- EPA Performance Partnership Agreement
11:45 a.m. WQF Work Plan for 2005 - 2006
12:15 p.m. Working Lunch
1:00 p.m. Identify ongoing and new WQF Work Groups
1:15 p.m. Working group assignments
-Select chair and coordinator
-Determine next meetings/topics
1:45 p.m. Next steps and meeting evaluation
2:00 p.m. AdjournGroundrules
- One person talk at a time
- Speak up HERE, not out THERE!
- Be respectful—No personal attacks
- Listen for understanding rather than disagreement
- No “shaggy dog stories” –be concise, do not dominate
- Misery is optional
2005 ISSUES SCAN
To develop a Colorado Water Quality Forum work plan for the coming year, we:
(a) Reviewed, clarified, and refined the issues list as indicated below
(b) Completed a triage review of the finalized list to develop a 2005 – 2006 WQF Work Plan for the Colorado Water Quality forum which included:(i) Issues for work groups or other proactive CWQF attention;
(ii) Issues for monitoring or informational briefings only;
(iii) Issues that are not a priority for CWQF attention at this time.
2005 Issues List:1. 2004-2005 CWQF work groups:
a. Basic Standards Triennial Review (Paul Frohardt)
b. Impacted Water Supply (Dave Akers)
c. Nutrient Criteria (Bob McConnell)
d. Sediment Guidance (Bob McConnell)
e. Aquatic Life Classifications (Bob McConnell)
f. Water Quality Trading Policy (Pat Nelson)
g. Section 303(d)/TMDL (Phil Hegeman)
h. Wastewater Reuse (John Rehring)
i. Practical Quantitation Limits Guidance (Dave Akers)
j. SB03-276 Study (Mark Pifher)
2. Upcoming Water Quality Control Commission rulemaking hearings:
a. Basic Standards and Methodologies for Surface Water (06/05).
b. Discharges to Storm Sewers (Reg. #65) (07/05).
c. Wastewater Reuse (Regs. #84/#61) (08/05).
d. Chatfield Reservoir Control Reg. (10/05).
f. Eagle River water quality standards (12/05).
g. 2006 Section 303(d) List/M&E List (02/06)
h. San Juan/Gunnison water quality standards (06/06)
3. Upcoming Water Quality Control Commission administrative action hearings:
a. Nonpoint Source Management Program update (08/05).
b. FY06 Financial Assistance IUPs (10/05)
c. FY06 Nonpoint Source Project funding (02/06).
d. Section 305(b) Report (03/05).
4. Upcoming WQCC triennial/routine review hearings:
a. Biosolids Regulation (07/05).
b. Arkansas/Rio Grande water quality standards ISH (10/05)
c. San Juan/Gunnison water quality standards IFH (11/05).
d. Colorado River salinity standards (12/05)
e. Revolving Fund and State Grant Rules (Regs. #51, #53) (01/06)
f. Pretreatment Regulations (02/06)
g. Dillon Reservoir Control Regulation (03/06)
h. CAFO Control Regulation (Reg. #81) (04/06)
i. Procedural Rules (05/06)
5. Other upcoming WQCC hearings:
a. WQCD PQL Guidance IH (10/05)
6. EPA action on Colorado’s 2004 Section 303(d) List.
7. Future water quality program funding.
8. Arid West Water Quality Research Project.
9. EPA guidance re water quality standards for effluent dependent/dominated waters.
10. Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council status.
11. Colorado Ground Water Quality Protection Council.
12. Proposed “Good Samaritan” Act.
13. Source Water Protection Program.
14. EPA’s guidance Sanitary Sewer Overflow Regulations/Definition of “significant non-compliance”
15. Mercury standards and compliance.
16. CDPHE policy for fish consumption advisories.
17. Stormwater Phase II implementation. And enforcement issues
18. Whole effluent toxicity test method and implementation guidance from EPA
19. Discharge permit jurisdictional issues (e.g. Miccosukee, Catskills, Talent Irrigation, etc.)
20. Interaction between EQIP and section 319.
21. Coalbed methane development (salinity issues re: produced water—what is being injected? What is Wyoming doing?)
22. Environmental Management System implementation.
23. Proposed EPA Selenium standards.
24. Salinity issues.
25. EPA Performance Partnership Agreement/Strategic Plan efforts – “Program Activity Measures” and “Protection Plans”.
26. EPA enforcement initiatives (Primarily Stormwater)
27. State enforcement initiatives (stormwater, drinking water, CAFOs)
28. Waste disposal challenges related to advanced drinking water treatment: 1. EPA guidance for radiated waste (“norm” and “t-norm”) and, 2. Assimilative capacity above low flow issues, (e.g. discharge permits re: Thornton, etc)
29. Rocky Mountain National Park air deposition issues.
30. CAFO permitting in view of 2nd Circuit decision.
31. Updating of Colorado Water Quality Management and Drinking Water Protection Handbook
32. Emerging Contaminants (e.g. Blue/Green Algae, DNA Typing, etc.)
33. Anti-degradation guidance and implementation
34. Temperature Standards
35. Safe water/Drinking water integration
36. Quality/Quantity Issues (what are they?)
37. Recreation Implementation
38. Ammonia Standards and Implementation
Watershed approach in the Context of the EPA Strategic Plan
(Joe Piotrowski, Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds)[A power point presentation is available on this Website]
Local Watershed Approaches
[Power point presentations are available upon request]
SB 276 Analysis: What worked? What do we need to do for 2006?
• The 276 Report and Process was very good
• Departments needs to have a clear message of what they want and don’t want (it was a moving target
• Had support of Stakeholders up front
• Draft bill took too long (from Dec.- March) and the bill lost momentum
• A lesson: when necessary, the JBC can find $
• Stakeholders as a group were not held together but some were individually involved
• For timing purposes, stakeholders need lead time to checking with their organizations—we did not have this
• Need to communicate/meet with stakeholder group regularly
• The CAFO permit issue became one of the priority issues to address the 276 Bill
• As bill moved forward, need some way of keeping up with each other
• Should utilize resources of WQF to help involve CACI and CML (we do have members within the CWQF)
• In the future, the Utility Council wants own Drinking water Fee, not to be wrapped up in other fee bills
• The Wastewater Utility council would like to see a different, more successful fee schedule increase (will be encouraging more involvement of their members with CML)
• Permit fees (to the penny) are in the State Statute so we can not address salary increases and other increases of operational costsStrategies/Next Steps Regarding “276” Issues:
1. Cindy Duffy –will get July date for next “276” meetings of Advisory Group (By July 7th)
2. Dave Merritt (on behalf of Glenwood Springs Council) will talk to Sam Mammet about new fee bill
3. Watershed groups should play a role (present at Watershed Assembly?)
4. Need a WQF/CDPHE panel to talk to CML Membership
5. Need a list of ?s brought up by legislature for next session
6. Re-evaluate strategy with shift to a democratic legislature
7. Need to go to legislature with draft bill in September (if possible)
8. Add Xcel to the original stakeholder work group list
9. Establish a series of meetings through December (at next meeting, also establish a communication schedule after December)
10. Meet before Agriculture Council during legislative session
11. Consider using broadcast e-mail to broaden water quality community to help lobby legislature
12. Agreed upon broad principles by WQF:
a. Primacy of State
b. Fee Equity
c. Fee for service a worthwhile concept for discreet services
d. Pursue some level of General FundsWater Quality Forum Business Matters
Next meetings:
September 26, 2005
November 21 (need a location)
January 23, 2006
March 27, 2006
May 22, 2006
Retreat – TBAFinancial Report (Lisa Carlson)
[Handout Available upon request)
• Suggestion: send fundraising letter in May or June before end of State fiscal year
Administrative Committee Member ship ConfirmationsAgenda Committee: Paul Frohardt, Pat Nelson, Mark Pifher, Barbara Biggs, Vic Lucero, Jeannette Hillery, New WQ Director
Executive Committee: Don Carlson, Jeannette Hillery, and Robert Sakata
Website Committee: Pat Nelson, Paul Forhardt, and Sue Ellen Harrison
Work Group Process: What is working, what do we need to change?• Reduce the number of continuing issues
• Need to clarify the role/responsibilities of work group members, including the groundrules (decision makers in organizations?), speak up here, not out there, etc.)
• Need to look at issues by issues and be specific about the role of the group (e.g. work group, advisory group, technical group, what is purpose/role?) Some issues may evolve beyond a work group.
• Work groups can become overwhelming for the Staff of the Division
• The Division Staff are frequently in the position of defending proposals—Should other chair the committees?
• Each work group needs to have clear expectations and definition of decision making
• If you can not declare a position or advocacy within a workgroup, individuals need to declare that fact to rest of work group
• Need to have an agenda item about the work group process
• Time commitment is massive for participants—can there be tighter timeframes?
• Need to get the message out about the WQF for people who may not be aware
• Need to bring people up to speed. If people do not know or have questions, then they need to ask, take responsibility as wellNEXT STEPS:
• Develop work group guidelines for member roles, groundrules, process, agenda etc. (Jeannette Hillery, Paul Frohardt, Robert Sakata, and Lisa Carlson) By September meeting
• Send 2005 2006 Work Plan to master e-mail list and remind people about website, etc. (Paul Frohardt - by August)COLORADO WATER QUALITY FORUM
2005 - 2006 ANNUAL WORK PLAN1. 2005-2006 CWQF work groups:
a. Impacted Water Supply (Dave Akers)
b. Nutrient Criteria (Bob McConnell)
c. Sediment Guidance (Bob McConnell)
d. Aquatic Life Classifications (Bob McConnell)
e. Practical Quantitation Limits Guidance (Dave Akers)
f. Assimulative Capacity Above Flows (Dave Aker)
g. Temperature Standards (Sarah Johnson)
h. Ammonia Standards and Implementation (Pat Nelson)
2. Issues for monitoring and informational briefings
a. Section 303(d)/TMDL (September, Phil Hegeman)
b. Future water quality program funding (September)
c. Anti-degradation Guidance and implementation (September – Pat Nelson)
d. Environmental Management System implementation (September and March)
e. Emerging contaminants: blue/green algae, DNA typing, etc. (September—Amy)
f. CDPHE policy for fish consumption advisories (November)
g. EPA guidance re water quality standards for effluent dependent/dominated waters. (November)
h. Waste disposal challenges related to advanced drinking water treatment (November, Glenn, CDPHE)
i. CAFO permitting in view of 2nd Circuit decision (November, Meg Collins)
j. Rocky Mountain National Park air deposition issues (Novemember/January)
k. EPA’s guidance re: Sanitary Sewer Overflow Regulations/definition of “significant non-compliance” (January)
l. Whole effluent toxicity test methods and implementation guidance from EPA (January)
m. Source Water Protection Program (January/March)
n. Proposed EPA Selenium standards (January/March)
o. Environmental Management System implementation (September and March)
p. Updating of Colorado Water Quality Management and Drinking Water Protection Handbook (May)
q. Arid West Water Quality Research Project (as needed)
r. Colorado Water Quality Monitoring Council status (as needed)
s. Colorado Ground Water Quality Protection Council (as needed)
t. Proposed “Good Samaritan” Act (as needed)
u. Discharge permit jurisdictional issues re: Miccosukee, Catskills, Talent Irrigation, etc. (as needed)
v. Interaction between EQIP and section 319 (as needed)
w. Wastewater Reuse (John Rehring—as needed)
x. Recreation Implementation (if needed)
New Work Group Membership Sign Up
Add to Impacted Water Suppy: Lee Johson (ljohson@chp-law.com), Mary Fabiisiak (mfabisiak@ci.westminster.co),
Add to Nutrient, Sediment, Aquatic Life: Mary Fabiisiak (mfabisiak@ci.westminster.co)
Temperature Standards Work Group (Sarah Johnson, Chair):
Barb BiggsMary Fabisiak, Sue Ellen Harrison, Taylor Hawes, Barb Horn, Lee Johnson, Christine Johnston, Melinda Kassen, Aimee Majewski, Dave Merritt, Pat Nelson, Peter Nichols,, Mark Pifher ,Jerry Raisch Jim Sanderson, Esther Vincent,Barbara Waltz, Amy Woodis, John Woodling, Melissa Young
Ammonia Standards and Implementation (Pat Nelson)
Lee Johson (ljohson@chp-law.com), Mary Fabiisiak (mfabisiak@ci.westminster.co), Amy Woodis (awoodis@mwrd.dst.co.us), Paul Frohardt (paul.frohard@state.co.us), Sarah Johnson (sarah.Johnson@ state.co.us, Barbara Biggs (bbiggs@mwrd.dst.co.us)
Meeting Evaluation:What worked? Location/Food, Watershed Panel, EPA Headquarters Person, Timing
What would you have changed? Move tables so we can move behind them, name tags that work.
