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Water Quality Sub-Committee

Upcoming Meetings:

TBA

Past Meetings:

Monday, March 1 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm at the Woodcreek City Hall

Thursday, February 4 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Woodcreek City Hall

Tuesday, January 19th, 2009, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, Woodcreek City Hall (meeting notes)

Tuesday, December 1st from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Woodcreek City Hall 

Agenda

Review/discussion of causes and impacts listed at Oct. 20 mtg.

• Identify Causes/Impacts

  • Impervious Cover; Construction; Golf courses; Personal behavior (Grass/Lawn culture, etc); Impervious cover/urbanization; Agriculture (livestock, non-traditional, farming,, flowers, apples, grapes, etc.); Septic; Drainage controls/stormwater management; Leaking oil pipelines; Aging infrastructure; Illegal dumping (construction material in Wood Creek North); Roads/road construction; Grandfathered developments; Enforcement of existing regulations; Wildlife controls – deer overgrazing, livestock/overgrazing, domesticated ducks; Riparian landscape grooming/improper vegetation management; Improper garbage disposal and dumping; Low flows from depletion of Aquifer is what caused the 303d listing for dissolved oxygen in 2000

Further discussion on any additional impacts to add to list
Discussion on list of Best Management Practices to consider/recommend

• Barton Spring Segment WPP (http://www.waterqualityplan.org/index.php?BODY=finaldraft)
• Plum Creek WPP (http://www.tsswcb.state.tx.us/files/docs/nps-319/PCWPP.pdf)
  • What BMPs are community and developers willing to implement?
  • Dripping Springs – John Thompson, see what they learned and why it didn’t work? January Meeting ask for a presentation from them

Other Possibilities

• What is subcommittee definition of water quality? We don’t need to reinvent the wheel so base it on existing standards in the Clean Water Act.
• Map septic tanks (City of Wimberley has a septic tank map started)
• Land Use Land Cover Map: WVWA, Economic & Land Stewardship Subcommittees
• Need information about golf course practices
• Test shallow groundwater in abandoned wells near the square to see if there is contamination, particularly septic

Tuesday, October 20th from 2:00 - 4:00 pm at the Wimberley Community Center

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Water Quality Subcommittee members:

Chair: Debbie Magin (GBRA)
Tracy Bratton (Loomis Environmental Consulting)
Don Ferguson (City of Wimberley Administrator)
David Baker (WVWA/HTGCD)
Pete Anderson (Wimberley)
Pat Bohannon (TCEQ)
Glenn Longley (Texas State University)
Eddie Gumbert (Wimberley Developer)
Gordon Linam (Texas Parks & Wildlife Department)       

Water Quality Subcommittee Tasks

• Consider other stakeholders/ individuals that should be part of subcommittee and recruit members in community
• Set long term goals/standards for water quality parameters to guarantee “clean, clear, and flowing”
• Identify areas of concern
• Identify causes and sources of water quality problems
• Identify standards in place to protect, what we can improve, or new management measures
• Identify Best Management Practices that can be implemented