WRIA 56/HANGMAN CREEK Watershed Implementation Team Meeting Tuesday, March 6, 2007 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Spokane County Conservation District Conference Room 210 N. Havana Spokane, WA Meeting Summary Attending: Reanette Boese, Spokane County Walt Edelen, Spokane County Conservation District Kristine Graf, City of Spokane Peter Grunte, Watershed Resident Susan Gulick, Sound Resolutions (Facilitator) Sara Hunt, Dept. of Ecology Michael Largent, Whitman County Gary Ostheller, Fairfield Grange Bill Rickard, City of Spokane, Environmental Programs 1. Approve Meeting Summary q The meeting summary for the previous meeting was approved with no changes. 2. Implementation of the Watershed Plan Recommendations q The WIT reviewed recommendations R11.h through R11.m and developed initial implementation actions. q Susan will summarize the discussion in the first draft of the Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP). 3. Update on Stateline stream gauge q The Spokane CD and Ecology have finalized an agreement. q The real-time gauge will be installed and operational by June 30th. q USGS will maintain the gauge for 2 years; afterwards money will need to be identified to fund ongoing operation. The estimated cost is $12,000-$15,000 per year. 4. Spangle Creek dredging q Walt sent a letter to the City of Spangle offering to help address the sedimentation issues in Spangle Creek in a manner consistent with the Watershed Plan. q Walt will be attending a town council meeting on March 12th and assumes this will be discussed at that time. q Spokane County has notified Spangle that the dredging will be subject to the County’s Critical Areas Ordinance and will require a grading permit. WDFW will also require a hydraulic permit. Spangle will need a habitat management plan to fulfill these various permit requirements. q The WIT hopes these issues can be resolved in a mutually beneficial way. They would like to assist the City in addressing the sedimentation issues in a manner that is protective of the watershed. 5. Update on recruitment of new members q Walt sent two letters: one to Group A purveyors and one to other potentially interested persons. q Responses are trickling in. 6. Water Reclamation q Public meetings will be coming up on the City’s study of reuse possibilities for reclaimed water. q There will also be a briefing in either WRIA 55/57 or WRIA 54 because these are the locations where there are feasible sites. There were no feasible sites identified in WRIA 56. q Bill will have copies of the draft study available at a future meeting. 7. Other Issues q Kris will serve as Bill’s alternate on the WIT. q Michael noted that while he will not be able to attend every meeting, he would like to keep up on the issues before the WIT. He finds the web-site very useful and requested that the homework be posted on the web. q A meeting of the Hangman Creek TMDL will take place on March 15th at 6:30 at the Fairfield Grange. q Ecology has released its annual report on watershed planning and instream flows. Sara passed out a sample. The report is available on Ecology’s website: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/pubs/0611046.pdf 8. Upcoming Meetings q The next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 20th, from 10-12 at the Harvester Restaurant in Spangle. q There will also be a meeting on Tuesday, April 3rd, from 10-12 at the CD office in Spokane. If you have questions or comments, please contact Susan Gulick of Sound Resolutions at (206) 548-0469 or by e-mail at Susan@Soundresolutions.com.