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Home My WebLink About10 - Discussion on potential meeting topics/agenda items for future WRAB meetings CITY OF BOULDER WATER RESOURCES ADVISORY BOARD AGENDA ITEM MEETING DATE: August 17, 2009 AGENDA TITLE: Discussion and feedback on potential meeting topics/agenda items for future WRAB meetings PRESENTER: Ned Williams, Director of Public Works for Utilities EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At the July 20, 2009 meeting, WRAB members identified their top priorities for future agenda items. Those items (listed below) have been placed on the WRAB's on-going calendar. 1. Town of Nederland WWTP IGA - August 2009 2. Update to Drought Response Plan - Sept or Oct 2009 3. Update on Water Conservation Program - Nov 2009 4. Update on Lyons to Boulder Reservoir Trail - Nov 2009 5. Update on Water Availability studies being done by the Colorado Water Conservation Board - Dec 2009 6. Update on Boulder's water yields, operations models and reliability criteria - Dec 2009 7. Gross Reservoir expansion and South Boulder Creek instream flow - Jan 2010 The balance (41 items) of the "possible future agenda items" is reflected below. WRAB members are asked to individually select their top 5 items (you do not need to prioritize your top 5) from this list and submit/send those items to staff on or before Friday, August 14, so that a summarized list can be compiled and provided to WRAB members for review/approval at the August 17 meeting. WRAB should review these top 5 items during Agenda X, "Discussion on future schedule, including revised list of agenda items." The following items 1-7 received 2 votes 1 Emerging contaminant monitoring in source water and treated water 2 Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) study and possible Water Budget changes 3 Boulder and Barker Reservoirs zebra and quagga mussel and invasive 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 Water's semi-annual water 4 users update) 5 Wastewater treatment facility discharge permit renewal. 6 Wastewater treatment facility energy audit 7 Wetland regulations (continued on next page) AGENDA ITEM # 10 PAGE 1 The following items 8-41 received 1 or 0 votes Water Program 8 Detailed Review of Water portions 2008 Annual Report when read 9 Boulder Reservoir Master Plan 10 Possible changes to water budget rate structure or criteria 11 City Department water use pilot program 12 Backflow prevention program update Treated water distribution system Standard Operating Procedures - water quality monitoring responses to main breaks and customer complaints. Potential for leak detection 13 surveys. 14 Source Water Protection Program update 15 Water Treatment Facility energy audit update 16 Iris and Cherryvale pump station renovation 17 Betasso penstock replacement Boulder reservoir water treatment facility improvements: sodium hypochlorite system; 18 third Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Boulder Canyon hydro (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exemption, power 19 purchase agreement, 100 year history of facility) 20 Hydroelectric system and production 21 Water court cases update 22 Colorado-Big Thompson C-BT system operations 23 Non-Motorized boating on Barker Reservoir Wastewater Program 24 Detailed review of Wastewater elements of 2008 Annual Report 25 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 26 life criteria, and other possible criteria; evaluation of ammonia effluent limits Wastewater treatment facility evaluation by Carollo Engineers - digesters, UV disinfection 27 and liquid stream process evaluation 28 Marshall Landfill project closure Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) wastewater treatment facility emerging 29 contaminant removal evaluation project 30 Update on final NIST plutonium release event results and biosolids disposal 31 Photo Voltaic (PV) project update (continued on next pie) AGENDA ITEM # 10 PAGE 2 Stormwater / Flood Program 32 Review of Stormwater elements from 2008 Utility Annual Report E. coli total maximum daily load update and possible implications to city stormwater 33 requirements 34 City stormwater requirements 35 Flood hazard land uses General / Other 36 Review of General/Administrative portions of 2008 Utility Annual Report 37 Utility bill inserts about proposed rate increases DONE 38 Silver Lake Ditch agreement 39 Peer Review recommendations implementation update - 2009 items Peer Review recommendations implementation update - 2010 items based on final 2010 40 budget 41 Valmont Butte Cleanup / Mitigation / Long-range plans Finally, staff will maintain this complete list of possible topics for future reference. If a topic does not make the WRAB's "short list of the Top 5" for now, it doesn't mean it can't be put on a future agenda if conditions warrant it. AGENDA ITEM # 10 PAGE 3