June 6 Watershed Council Meeting Agenda
The next meeting of the Ventura River Watershed Council will be on Thursday, June 6, from 9:00 – 11:30 am (note: this is a slightly different time than previously announced), in the Topping Room of the EP Foster Library, 651 E. Main St., Ventura.
Katie Haldeman, Resource Conservation District, performing an
agricultural irrigation evaluation.
Cinnamon McIntosh with Casitas Municipal Water District and Katie Haldeman with the Resource Conservation District will each provide presentations on the free irrigation efficiency audit/evaluation programs their districts offer. Services are available for farms, schools and other large landscapes, hobby orchards, and commercial and residential landscapes. Equipment rebates and/or cost shares are offered as part of the programs. Use of these free programs offers one of our most powerful ways of reducing water demand in the watershed, and efficient irrigation also greatly reduces the amount of fertilizer (nutrients) reaching our groundwater and surface water. We should all be familiar with the programs so we can help promote use of them.
Also on the agenda are some Watershed Management Plan (WMP) items, including approval of our Interim List of Projects & Programs, as well as approval of the subset of this list that will be submitted for inclusion in the countywide Integrated Regional Water Management Plan update.
Changes to the Council’s Governance Charter and membership, and to the WMP’s Objectives are on the agenda for approval. Darrell Siegrist will discuss and get input on the County Environmental Health Division’s idea to pursue a special study, as allowed for in the Algae TMDL, to narrow down our understanding of the contribution of septic systems to the nutrient impairment of the watershed’s surface water. And we’ll hear the latest Watersheds Coalition of Ventura County news from Lynn Rodriguez, and get a report on the WEAP Model trainings held here in May.
Meeting Agenda
Proposed Changes to Governance Charter
Proposed Changes to our Objectives (for the Watershed Management Plan)
RCD Mobile Irrigation Lab Flier
Septic System Special Study Proposal
I’ll send the Interim List of Projects & Program out early next week.