CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT SUBCOMMITTEE

Subcommittee of the Groundwater Citizens Advisory Committee

  NOTICE OF MEETING  

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2000 AT 5:00 P.M.

COURTHOUSE ANNEX, CONFERENCE ROOM 5

Agenda

1.                  Call to Order

2.                  Introductions  (5 minutes.)

3.                  Our Mission  (5 minutes.)

4.                  Long-term Goals (e.g., Maintain an annually updated internet accessible database) (15 minutes)

5.                  Starting Objectives (e.g.,  Establish the status of existing information) and Assignments (20 minutes)

6.                  Communications (snail mail, email, webboard, etc.)  (10 minutes)

7.         Future Meetings and Agenda Items   (5 minutes)

8.         Adjourn

Minutes: Continuous Assessment Subcommittee Meeting     9-13-2000

Submitted by Ray Schmidt

Present: Steve Bradley, Brian Kozlowski, Dave Mechenich, Ray Schmidt, Joel Giraud,        Rick Zahn, Fred Bailey

Meetings will be kept to one hour.  Work will be done outside of meetings.  We can email each other between meetings. 

Bryant described the function of Citizens Advisory Committee and its Subcommittees. The groundwater website has our subcommittee mission listed, along with those of the other subcommittees.  We discussed our subcommittee mission, “To design and implement long term monitoring and assessment plan for groundwater quality and quantity”.   We expect to spend one to two years for initial design and implementation.

Discussed Long Term Goals.  Regarding databases: DNR (GRIN), Environmental Task Force Lab, DATCP, State Lab of Hygiene, Portage County - info is in different formats, no standard parameters exist.  Locational reliability of much of the older data is suspect.

Need to know depth of wells to know which portion of the aquifer is being sampled.  Confidentiality of private well water quality data needs to be considered. 

Monitoring and assessment can use data from monitoring wells, private wells, municipal wells.  Stora Enso (fka Consolidated Papers) has seven years of data from wells surrounding sludge landspreading sites, but it’s all confidential.

Suggestion: How about tying into education system.  Have students find out info about their families’ private wells, and any known quality/quantity problems.

Assignment for next meeting: Think about long term monitoring and assessment needs, i.e.  database needs, need for continuous monitoring (not just spotty, project based).  Need to define data gaps, and impediments to access to available data.

Don’t limit ourselves to what we think might be possible.  Determine what we would like to do and then determine what means we need to employ to get it done.

Members will bring bulleted lists of starting objectives.

Dave and Ray will provide descriptions of existing databases available.  Each member will put something on the webboard on the groundwater website (http//www.uwsp.edu/water/portage/) to evaluate its potential for discussion purposes.

Meetings will be monthly.  Work products will be due one week before meetings.

Next Meeting: October 11, 5:00 PM, Courthouse Annex