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Reclaimed Water and Water Rights Impairment Advisory Committee - Archive

2009 Meetings

December 3, 2009

• Agenda
• Draft rule language (primary document for this meeting)
• Water right transfer application
• New water right application
• Instream flow flowchart (no changes since report to legislature)
• Other protected water rights flowchart  (no changes since report to legislature)
• Tracking list on statute and rule issues (same as last month)
• Overall list of committee issues (same as March 2009)
• List of names suggested by Ecology for December 4th legislative workshop on reclaimed water and impairment

October 29, 20099

• Agenda
• WAC 173-219-150, Water rights impairment section
• Flowchart for “Other protected water rights” impairment assessment  (no changes from last month)
• Flowchart for “Instream flow” impairment assessment  (no changes from last month).
• Issue status document  (updated from the August meeting).
• October 29 letter to Tribes requesting input on water right issues.  This letter was mailed to tribes’ natural resource directors.

September 24, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Puyallup Tribe letter, Nov. 2008
• Carnation impairment decision by Ecology
• Airway Heights impairment assessment by utility, Oct. 2004
• Airway Heights Ecology letter Dec. 2004
• Airways Heights impairment assessment by utility, Oct. 2006
• Draft rule outline  MS Excel
• Flowchart - project review process, updated from Nov. 2008 meeting
• Flowchart – instream flows impairment process , updated from Jan. 2009 meeting
• Flowchart – protected water rights other than instream flows or Tribal treaty rights, updated from Jan. 2009 meeting

August 27, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Statute Rule Guidance List
• Chapter 90.46 RCW with relevant changes from SSB 5504
• Water right definitions for reclaimed water - Issue 9 b and c
• Submittals for impairment review - Issue 10
• 2004 Impairment Analysis City of Airway Heights WA, Wastewater Facilities Plan
• 2007 Impairment Analysis City of Carnation WA, Wastewater Treatment Facility

July 23, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Water right definitions for reclaimed water - Issue 9 b and c
• Revisiting impairment during RW permit renewals - Issue 12
• Submittals for impairment review - Issue 10
• Notification Process
• 2003 Impairment Analysis City of Pullman WA, South Fork Palouse River Project
• 2004 Impairment Analysis City of Airway Heights WA, Wastewater Facilities Plan
• 2007 Impairment Analysis City of Carnation WA, Wastewater Treatment Facility
• Impairment Review - Protected water rights other than state instream flows or Tribal treaty rights

June 25, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Issue paper – “existing” water rights
• Issue paper – upstream/downstream impairment
• Issue paper – definitions of direct use, indirect use, beneficial purpose
• Issue paper – minimum submittals for impairment assessment
• Issue paper – revisiting impairment

June 4, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Committee schedule
• Issue paper - definition of impairment
• Issue paper - upstream/downstream impairment
• Issue paper – existing water rights
• Map – adjudicated basins
• Flowchart – reclaimed water project review process
• Flowchart – instream flow impairment review
• Potential issues for rule or statute

April 30, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• 2009 schedule for draft rule and report to the legislature
• Draft 2009 legislative report template
• Potential issues for statute or rule

March 26, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Reclaimed water and water rights committee issues
• Draft outline for updated guidance

February 26, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• List of existing reclaimed water facilities
• Hypothetical examples of facilities
• 2006 reclaimed water impairment analysis guidance

January 8, 2009

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• 2006 Reclaimed Water Impairment Analysis Guidance
• Flowchart – Impairment Review - Instream Flows
• Flowchart – Impairment Review – Other Protected Water Rights
• Committee work plan - November 2008 notes

2008 Meetings

November 7, 2008

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Flowchart – Impairment Review – Instream Flows
• Flowchart – Reclaimed Water Project Review
• Flowchart – Impairment Review – Other Protected Rights
• Committee Workplan

October 14, 2008

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Flowchart - Impairment Review-Instream Flows
• Flowchart - Impairment Review-Other Protected Rights

September 9

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Instream Flow - Impairment Review Flowchart
• Workplan
• King County staff suggested improvements
• Reclaimed water project review

July 15

• Agenda
• Meeting Notes
• Marine and fresh water discharges
• Workplan Item #4
• TMDLs and Instream flows
• Permitted reclaimed water facilities
• Change of discharges
• Reclaimed water project review
• Impairment review
• Wastewater facilities and instream flows

June 10

• Agenda, including call-in number
• Meeting Notes - Draft
• Impairment review for instream flow
• Reclaimed water permitting
• Water rights permitting
• Definition of impairment
• Copy of impairment guidance (same document that has been distributed before)

May 13

• Agenda  including call in number
• Meeting Notes - Final
• Presentation on topics to be discussed
• Workplan status (this simply reformats the “Committee Questions and Issues” sent out on April 21)
• Copy of the impairment guidance (same document that has been distributed before)

April 8

• Agenda, including call in number
• Meeting Notes - Final
• Impairment review for instream flows
• Options for triggering review if no instream flows exist

March 18

• Agenda, including call in number
• Meeting Notes - Final
• Guidance and statutory changes recommended so far
• Instream flows and TMDLs
• Strawman for proposed process to make OCPI decisions
• Committee’s Workplan (generated at the December meeting)

January 8

• Agenda, including call in number
• Meeting notes -Final
• Presentation on use of the words “existing” and “downstream” in the impairment standard
• Presentation on upstream impairment scenarios - Tom Ring
• Guidance flowchart with comparison of the proposed process in E2SSB 6117
• Advisory committee Workplan
• Comparison of Workplan and E2SSB 6117 tasks

2007 Meetings

December 11

• Agenda - includes directions and call in number
• Meeting notes
• Flowchart for reclaimed water and instream flow project review (OCPI determinations)
• Committee questions and issues

November 19

• Agenda - includes directions and call in number
• Guidance flowchart
• Puget Sound sewage treatment plants (marine discharge versus freshwater)
• Wastewater treatment plants and instream flows map
• PowerPoint presentation on OCPI and impairment
• Carnation Reclaimed Water Impairment Analysis

October 3

• Agenda
• Report outline with edits
• Issues and questions draft #2
• Statutory language for Overriding Considerations of the Public Interest (OCPI)
• Mitigation Measures Used in Water Right Permitting (summary of mitigation measures used in the past) 

September 14

• Agenda - includes directions
• Reclaimed Water and Water Rights Advisory Committee Policy Questions - September 14, 2007 Draft
• Water Right Impairment in Reclamation and Reuse: How Other Western States Can Inform Washington Law

August 27

• Meeting summary
• Agenda
  • Reclaimed water impairment analysis guidance
  • Impairment Guidance Flowchart
  • Evergreen Valley  Pat Deneen
  • Just Compensation and Eminent Domain  - Kurt Unger, Ecology
  • Carnation Wastewater Treatment Facility  - Steve Tolzman
  • SB 6117
  • What is an Instream Flow?  - Brad Caldwell, Ecology

August 3

• Agenda
• Draft meeting notes
• 1996 attorney survey on reclaimed water and impairment in other states
• Ecology PowerPoint
• Jay Austin PowerPoint
• Tom Ring PowerPoint
• Yakama Nation
• Statute and rule sections
• Reclaimed water impairment analysis guidance

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