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1 NORTH FRONT RANGE WATER QUALITY PLANNING ASSOCIATION Civic Center, 500 E. 3 rd Street, Loveland, CO fax Meeting Minutes January 24, :00 pm FAREWELL LUNCHEON FOR CONNIE 2:30 pm A NUTRIENT MONITORING FRAMEWORK (NMF) PRESENTATION was conducted by Sarah Reeves following the luncheon. A copy of the slide presentation is to be posted on web site when received. 3:00 pm Association Meeting: 1. ROLL CALL AND DETERMINATION OF A QUORUM The meeting was called to order at 3:12 pm by Eric Doering at the South Weld County office building. Roll was called and the following members were in attendance: Pat Methena- Boxelder Gary Behlen Erie Jim Duell Estes Park San. Carol Webb Fort Collins Hope Dibble Fox Acres Wayne Ramey Lochbuie Tamara Moon Northglenn David Brand Platteville Rob Fleck SVSD Mark Thomas Weld County Ed Burke Brighton Jon Mays Erie Earl Smith Evans Greg Venette Ft. Lupton Dennis Schump Greeley Michael McCrary Loveland Raymond Reling - Northglenn John Holdren Severance Eric Doering SVSD Doug Rademacher Weld County Also present were Connie O Neill and Warren Mesloh Managers of North Front Range, Tracey Wise with Jehn Engineering, Dr. Sidney Innerebner, with Indigo Water Group. 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA The Agenda was approved as presented. 3. MINUTES Minutes from the December 13, 2012 meeting were considered. Mr. Holdren made a motion to approve minutes which was seconded by Mr. Smith. The minutes were approved. 4. FINANCIAL REPORT The financial reports for November and December were considered. Ms. O Neill explained that the expenses were typical for both months. There was an error regarding the expense of $ to conferences instead of meals & lodging which has been corrected. In December, final payment was made to the auditor for the 2011 financial records audit. A motion to approve was made by Mr. Mays and seconded by Mr. Rademacher. The financial reports were approved. 5. DECISION ITEM: 2013 BUDGET

2 The final budget for 2013 was offered for consideration and approval. Mr. Mesloh explained that there were a couple of line item increases owing to the intended overlap of the current and the new manager positions during the transition period thru March. Mr. Mesloh noted that it does not appear that the transition will take that long.the Executive Committee has reviewed this budget several times. Ms. O Neill noted that the Executive Committee approved the budget in December for consideration at the January meeting by the membership. Ms. O Neill also pointed out that the budget does not include various contributions made in the past because no assumption was made on funding of contributions to agencies until the membership approves them. A motion was made by Mr. Holdren and seconded by Mr. Smith to approve the 2013 budget. The motion was approved. 6. DECISION ITEM: ELECTION OF OFFICERS The Nominating Committee has prepared a list of candidates for the 2013 Executive Committee. Ms. O Neill mentioned that David Brand and Larry Wyeno served as the Nominations Committee again this year and thanked them for their efforts. All the current Executive Committee members agreed to run again for next year and no new potential members were nominated. Nominations from the floor were also solicited. There being none, Mr. McCrary made a motion to accept nominations of current committee members which was seconded by Mr. Rademacher. Motion passed. 7. DECISION ITEM: UTILITY PLAN REVIEW COMMITTEE CONFIRMATION The Association prepared a list of member representatives who have agreed to serve on the Utility Plan Review Committee for This list was presented to the Association for confirmation. Ms. O Neill stated that Chris Bieker of Upper Thompson was stepping down and will be replaced by Jason Graham from the City of Fort Collins. Ms. O Neill gave a Big Thank You to Chris for his years of service and to all the committee members. Mr. Holdren made a motion to approve the nominations for the Utility Plan Review Committee. Mr. Smith seconded and the motion passed. 8. DECISION ITEM: JOHNSTOWN UTILITY PLAN AMENDMENT The Town of Johnstown desires to relocate the NW pumping station to a new site east of the existing site. Mr. Mesloh indicated that the revised Utility Plan Amendment meets Association guidelines. Consideration of the Site Application for this project has been moved to next month at the request of the engineer. Mr. Mesloh introduced Ms. Tracey Wise from Jehn Engineering to provide a summary of the proposal to relocate the NW pump station east. Ms. Wise indicated the principal reason for the relocation was to serve additional area along the NW interceptor and that the station would still be interim and would be removed when the remainder of the interceptor was built. A question was asked to clarify if this was a physical relocation or a new station to replace the existing unit. Ms. Wise indicated that it was a new station and that the old one would be taken out of service. Mr. Mesloh stated that Weld County has indicated they have no problems with the revised plan and will sign off on the Site Application when it is provided. Ms. Wise stated that they were waiting on a deed to the pump station site to complete the site application package. A motion to approve the Utility Plan Amendment was made and seconded by Mr. Holdren and Mr. Smith respectively. The motion was passed.

3 9. DECISION ITEM: ERIE UTILITY PLAN Mr. Mesloh stated that this plan has been in the review process for some time due to service area change that prompted the need for an IGA between the Town and SVSD. The IGA has been signed by both parties and Weld County has previously signed off on this plan. Dr. Sidney Innerebner with Indigo Water Group was introduced to provide a brief review of the update. Ms. O Neill indicated that the service area boundary issues have been resolved and they have addressed all other items. There were a couple of minor typos in the last submittal that will be corrected in the final copy. Mr. Mays reviewed the Town s Utility Planning history going back to 2001, with updates in 2008 and the current plan. There was discussion of the new boundary and the coordinated areas with SVSD. Ms. O Neill indicated that Weld County Planning and Health Departments have both recommended approval. Mr. Mesloh pointed out a new temporary lift station located at the south end of Town for which the Association would soon see a site application from Doug Hurst. A motion to approve the Eire Utility Plan was made by Mr. Smith and seconded by Mr. McCrary. The motion passed. 10. PUBLIC HEARING: SVSD PLAN AMENDMENT The St. Vrain Sanitation District has proposed changes to their 208 Wastewater Utility Service Area (WUSA). As per the Plan Amendment Process, the proposal has been posted for public review during a 60 day comment period. Public hearing process: Ms. O Neill stated that this amendment addresses a change to the 208 WUSA boundary for SVSD that was proposed in the Utility Plan Amendment of the District which received approval from NFRWQPA in April. The main areas of change are on the north and east sides. There is undesignated area that was added to SVSD s boundary on the north. In addition the East I-25 SD dissolved and that area became part of SVSD. There is also a coordination area on the east side that was established through and IGA with Platteville. Comments were received from two entities. Weld County had no concerns and the Town of Milliken identified a minor error. A small area of Section 3 had been included in the SVSD s boundary which should have been left in Milliken s boundary. That has been corrected and the correction is reflected in the map that was included in the packet. No negative comments have been received during this review period. A motion to approve was offered my Mr. Rademacher and seconded by Mr. McCrary to approve the WUSA Plan Amendment. The motion was approved. Mr. Mesloh then discussed the change in the SVSD boundary as a part of the planning process approved by the Association in agenda item #9 above through the Erie Utility Plan. Mr. Mesloh asked for consideration of the SVSD map change to include the WUSA alteration approved under Item #9 as a part of IGA signed with Erie. The review and comments for this proposal were received as a part of Erie Utility Plan review process which now stands approved. This effectively reduces the SVSD WUSA area and this revision has been reviewed and approved by the Association and Weld County. The intent of the Plan Amendment Process has been met through the approval of the Erie Utility Plan (except for the 60 comment

4 period). Mr. Mesloh questioned whether the Association wanted SVSD to now go through the plan amendment process again or does the Association wish to allow approval of this service area change now. A motion was made to approve the SVSD WUSA area map change, as described in the IGA between SVSD and the Town of Erie, and wave the 60 day comment period was made by Mr. Holdren. Mr. Smith seconded the motion. The motion was passed. 11. DESCISION ITEM: WATER QUALITY FORUM (WQF) Mr. Mesloh reported that Lisa Carlson with the WQF has requested funds for the Forum s website update and maintenance in This request was made for a one time voluntary contribution in addition to the annual contribution. The Association has been contributing $200 annually to this committee. Does the association wish to make an additional contribution for the WQF web site expense? After some discussion, a motion was made by Mr. Rademacher to approve a contribution of $250 to the website maintenance. This was seconded by Mr. Mays. The motion was approved. 12. DECISION ITEM: NUTRIENT MONITORING FRAMEWORK Committee (NMF) Mr. Mesloh indicated that the committee is progressing towards becoming a more formal entity (i.e. forming an organization) and anticipates that it will be requesting dues of those whom wish to participate (and benefit from) membership. It is anticipated that dues for an association (i.e. NFRWQPA) would fall in the neighborhood of $900/year as noted on the attached dues sheet. Mr. Mesloh also noted that we had received the first deliverable from this group in the form of a nutrient sampling and analysis plan (SAP) which was prepared by the Monitoring Plan Task Force associated with the committee. It is intended that the SAP be used by members and participants for the sake of reporting consistency. The document will ultimately be posted on SPCURE s website in PDF form. Useful Word versions will be available from Sarah Reeves to committee members. Mr. Mays indicated that Erie would join and recommended that the Association do so as well. Mr. McCrary said that Loveland did not plan to join since it already participates in the Big Thompson Watershed Forum. Mr. Burke said that they are a member of SPCURE, so they support the Monitoring Framework effort. Ms. Webb indicated the fees were a reasonable cost. Mr. Rademacher thought we should participate for one year and re-consider in Mr. McCrary followed that we should ensure that all members had access to deliverables (i.e. data, sampling and reporting plans, etc). Discussion ensued as to what level of membership we needed to apply for and what do we get from each. It was felt that at an association level we might not be able to get access to data and sampling plans while joining as a watershed (~$2,850) would allow us to do so. A motion was made by Ms. Webb to participate in the NMF group up to a level of $2,850 providing the association gets access to all deliverables (note: if we can get deliverables at $900 the association level membership, then that will be the amount) This motion was seconded by Mr. Smith. The motion was approved. 13. OTHER BUSINESS

5 Ms. O Neill said that comments indicating No Concern were sent to CDPH&E regarding the Longmont Application to increase plant capacity. A discrepancy was noted between the MSA map (Figure 2.1) and the current approved 208 WUSA map which will be addressed in the 2013 update. Mr. Doering requested a copy of the site application. Mr. Mesloh brought up a discussion regarding a suggestion to move general meeting time to 2:00 pm rather than 3:00 pm at the NCWCD. A discussion of the merits of moving to 1:30 versus 2:00 pm ensued with 2:00 pm being the majority favorite. It was decided by a show of hands that 2 pm was the best time for the meeting. Updates: a. Water Quality Control Commission Mr. Mesloh reported that the Commission met on January 20 th. Their agenda was relatively light and included discussion of a hearing for the triennial review of the Biosolids regulation (Reg. 64) changes aimed at completion for The February meeting has been canceled. In March they will consider the new rules for Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (OWTS). b. Water Quality Forum & Workgroups Water Quality Forum: Committee met on January 22 nd. A legislative update was provided with the news that they are considering a Nutrients grants bill for addressing Reg. 85 requirements more info to come on this later. There was a panel discussion on Safe drinking water/ Clean water - Nexus Dick Parachini gave an update of revisions to the Colorado Water Quality Management Handbook not done A lengthy discussion ensued on how the Forum and the Division might work together better (partner) with possible changes to how the next retreat is to be executed. PQL Committee met on January 3 rd. Discussion centered around how to get the Division to review and answer questions regarding nutrient testing. The technical committee has offered a testing methodology for reporting TN and TIN MDLs/PQLs. If anyone s lab is interested in this memo let me know. Nutrient Monitoring Framework (NMF) Committee met on January 3 rd. Discussion revolved around how to deal with the Division in a constructive manner to get some consensus on how nutrient monitoring is to be handled, reported, and what they are going to do with the DATA. Big push will be to see what state deems approvable. NMF will develop ways and means of coordination data collection, management, and provide members with templates for nutrient information management like the SAP plan issued this week. This group is looking to formalize its organization as discussed earlier. (Agenda Item #12) Discharger Specific Variance Committee (DSV) met on January 15 th. Principle discussion was around a slide presentation from EPA regarding how to use the handbook interim economic guidance for water quality standards More

6 specifically the discussion centered on how to develop a report regarding what amounts to a substantial impact(s) followed by determination of whether these impacts are widespread. This process is being evaluated as one process for use in applying for variances (however it sounded like the State would not go down this road). Permit Issues Workgroup met on January 23 rd with primary discussion around two issues. The first deals with Reasonable Potential RP calculations and getting the state to agree with the use of 95% rather 99%. The second issue enforcement protocol deals with getting the state to put in writing guidance that addresses plant startup effluent criteria following construction projects. EPA historically uses 90 days, the state has no guidance. ISDS (OWTS) Workgroup: A hearing to repeal the ISDS Guidelines and adopt the onsite wastewater treatment system regulations is scheduled for March The workgroup has one more meeting scheduled for February 13th. We have been participating because early on there were discussions about a desire to change the cut off for site application from 2,000 gpd. They did not pursue that change so at this point these changes will not affect NFRWQPA. Arsenic Workgroup: This workgroup was originally established to discuss changes to the chronic arsenic standards. However, due to the magnitude of the issues, the Division decided to postpone changes to the table value standards until the 2016 Basic Standards hearing. They are now proposing temporary modifications for the chronic arsenic standards for segments with the Water + Fish use classification only at an April 2013 rulemaking hearing. For existing discharges, the temporary modification would be As(ch) = current conditions, expiring on The intent of the current condition temp. mod. is to maintain the status quo for all current discharges until the 2016 hearing where revised standards would be considered. For new or increased discharges the temp. mod. would be As(ch) = ug/l (Trec), expiring on The intent of this temp. mod. is to allow new or increased discharges to be permitted with a chronic arsenic effluent limitation of 3.0 through the expiration of the temp. mod. 303(d) Listing Methodology Workgroup: The Division has decided to delay the (d) listing process and as a result the 303(d) Listing Methodology Workgroup has been placed on hold. My understanding is that the group will have a hand full of meetings over the next couple of years just to keep progress moving but the bulk of the activity will be delayed for now. Regulation #84 Workgroup: The group has been working on revisions to Reg. #84 to add some new uses. These will be considered by the Commission at a hearing in May. The group has been working with the Divisions so hopefully all issues will be addressed prior to the hearing. 14. ADJOURN There being no further questions or discussion, the meeting was adjourned at 4:31 pm.

NORTH FRONT RANGE WATER QUALITY PLANNING ASSOCIATION Civic Center, 500 E. 3 rd Street, Loveland, CO fax AGENDA

NORTH FRONT RANGE WATER QUALITY PLANNING ASSOCIATION Civic Center, 500 E. 3 rd Street, Loveland, CO. 80537 970-962-2785 970-962-2913 fax AGENDA Where: When: 2:00 PM South Weld County Office December 7,