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Home My WebLink About7 - Potential meeting topics/agenda items for future WRAB meetings CITY OF BOULDER WATER RESOURCES ADVISORY BOARD AGENDA ITEM MEETING DATE: July 20, 2009 AGENDA TITLE: Discussion and feedback on potential meeting topics/agenda items for future WRAB meetings . PRESENTERS: Ned Williams, Director of Public Works for Utilities EXE CUTIVE SUMMARY: At the June 1, 2009 WRA.B retreat, WRAB members asked for a possible menu of agenda items for future meetings and asked for this list to be available at the next WRAB meeting. This request was made in the context of 1) managing meeting time in a more efficient manner, 2) allowing WRAB more ability to influence and determine agenda items, and 3) better plan for and calendar agenda item topics. At the June 15 WRAB meeting, staff handed out a list of 43 topics that staff had identified as being possible items for future meetings. WRAB members at the meeting asked that this list be separated into "Must do" and "Would like to consider doing" categories. The city code, section 2-3-15, states the following as to the WRA.B's role and responsibility: (b) The responsibilities of the board are to advise the city manager, the planning board, and the cio) council concerning the following water resources matters managed by the utilities division: (1) To review all environmental assessments and capital in2prover7ents conducted or proposed by the utilities division. (2) To review, monitor, and propose changes to the city's raw water, treated water, wastewater and flood control master plans. (3) To review and provide reco7nn2endations to the city manager concerning policy issues on operating programs, including, without limitation, water conservation, water treatment plant residuals, wastewater treatment plant biosolids disposal, and water quality, Of the list of 43 topics, staff identified the following eight topics that appear to most closely align with the city code requirements as the "Must do" topics: 1. Drought Response Plan, Vol. 1, update 2. Carter Lake Pipeline CEAP 3. Boulder Creek flood study 4. Gregory Creek flood study 5. Critical Facilities flood ordinance AGENDA ITEM 7 PAGE I 6. 'Wonderland Creek and Foutmile Canyon Creek flood mitigation plan 7. South Boulder Creek flood mitigation plan 8. Annual budget On July 7, 2009, a list of 40 potential meeting topics/agenda items (the "Would like to consider doing" list) was sent electronically to each WRAB member requesting that they return their prioritized list of "up to 10 items" by July 16. Staff would then bring a summary of each individual VA AB member's response to the July 20 WRAB meeting so the WRAB could go over the screened, first-cut list at the meeting. The most current list (ATTACHMENT A) of potential meeting topics includes items that WRAB members requested at the June 15 WRAB meeting or in subsequent comments. In addition, this list includes those items that Mr. Henry Adamski requested in his June 15, 2009 correspondence (ATTACHMENT B.) NEXT STEPS: Staff will distribute and hand out a summary of the WRAB responses received by July 16 so that the WRAB can review the screened, first-cut list of the prioritized topics. At some point (perhaps at the July 20th meeting), WRAB will need to provide feedback to staff as to which items to schedule as agenda items during the next 8-12 months. ATTACHMENTS : A - List of potential meeting topics / agenda items B - Adamski letter, June 15, 2009 AGENDA ITEM # 7 PAGE 2 Attachment A July 20, 2009 No. Potential Meeting Topic Water Program A Detailed Review of Water portions 2008 Annual Report (when ready) 1 Emerging contaminant monitoring in source water and treated water 2 Boulder Reservoir Master Plan Update to Drought Response Plan: Volumes 1 and 2 (includes moratorium on 3a water permits during drought) 3b A review of ongoing water availability studies being done by CWCB. Review and analysis of Boulder's water yields and operations models with 4a emphasis on understanding water supply predictions and reliability criteria. 4b Possible changes to water budget rate structure or criteria 5 City Department water use pilot program 6 Water Conservation Program update Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) study and possible Water Budget 7 changes 8 Backflow prevention program update Treated water distribution system Standard Operating Procedures - water quality monitoring sponses to main breaks and customer compalints. Potential 9 for leak detection surveys. 10 Source Water Protection Program update 11 Water Treatment Facility energy audit update 12 Lyons to Boulder Trail update Boulder Reservoir and Barker Reservoir zebra and quagga mussel and invasive 13 species control plan Update on Northern Water west slope water quality evaluations and possible implications to east slope diversions (this would be a summary of Northern 14 Water's semi-annual water users update) 15 Iris and Cherryvale ptiunp station renovation 16 Betasso penstock replacement Boulder reservoir water treatment facility improvements: sodium hypochloiite 17 system; third Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Boulder Canyon hydro (Federal Energy Regulatory Conmussion exemption, 18 power purchase agreement, 100 year lristory of facility) 19 Hydroelectric system and production 20 Water court cases update 21 Gross Reservoir expansion and South Boulder Creek instrealn flow 22 Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) system operations 23 Non-Motorized boating on Barker Reservoir Wastewater Program B Detailed review of Wastewater elements of 2008 Annual Report 24a Wastewater treatment facility discharge permit renewal. Attachment A July 20, 2009 24b Consideration of adding effluent filtration to 75th Street processes. Water quality and regulatory update: Preparation for Basic Standards Water Quality Standards Hearing July 2010; update on nutrient criteria, emerging contaminants, aquatic life criteria, and other possible criteria; evaluation of 25 ammonia effluent limits Wastewater treatment facility evaluation by Carollo Engineers - digesters, UV 26 disinfection and liquid stream process evaluation. 27 Wastewater treatment facility energy audit 28 Marshall Landfill project closure Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) wastewater treatment facility 29 emerging contaminant removal evaluation project 30 Update on final KIST plutonium release event results and biosolids disposal 31 Photo Voltaic (PV) project update Stormwater 1 Flood Program C Review of Stormwater elements from. 2008 Utility Annual Report 32 E. coli total maximum daily load update and possible implications to 33 City stormwater requirements 34 Flood hazard land uses 35 Wetland regulations F General I Other D Review of General/Administrative portions of 2008 Utility Annual Report 36 Utility bill mi serts about proposed rate increases f 37 Town of Nederland wastewater treatment facility IGA 38 Silver Lake Ditch agreement 39 Peer Review recon mendations implementations update - 2009 items Peer Review recommendations implementation update - 2010 items based on 40 final 2010 budget 41 Valmont Butte Cleanup / Mitigation / Long-range plans i i ATTACHMENT B 3une15,2009 To: Water Resources Advisory Board I request that the following items be placed on the agenda for the Water Resources Advisory Board (WRAB) for debate and discussion: 1. A mailing be included with the billing cycle inmmediately preceding any WRAB meeting where the annual rate increase reconmmendation is made and that this mailing include, at a minimum: a. Date, time, and location of the WRAB meeting. b. Date, time, and location where Boulder City Council will consider the recommended increase. c. A table containing a listing of the past five years of rate increases awarded to the utilities departments and the U.S. rate of inflation. d. The total surplus (deficit) of the utilities. 2. Language be added to the drought plan currently under revision that declares a moratorium on water permits such that no new permits to take or use water from the water utility be issued under drought conditions. /s/ Henry E. Adamski Henry E. Adamski I I