Garrapata Creek Watershed Council

Planning Committee Meeting

March 11, 2002

7pm

Martha & Ken’s home

Meeting Notes

 

Present: Charly Kleissner, Martha Diehl, Molly Williams, Ken Ekelund, Carol Fisch, Sally Taylor, Bill Nelson, Gary Collings, Lynn Overtree

 

Action items are in bold.

 UPDATES:

Martha:  

Watershed Info Exchange will be March 20, 3pm at Carol Fisch’s house. We are hosting. Subject will be the General Plan Update.

 Martha has, on a personal level, instigated the county to get a PWA survey of Old Coast Road with Marty’s money. Marty is receptive.

 Charly:

 PWA came through to analyze DFG property.

 They winterized the roads. At Fish Fry, they’ve had 19” of rain this season.

 He is planning to do some research on membership options.

They will be doing a private assessment with PWA in the near future on a road section that hasn’t been assessed yet.

Gary:

 Carmel River Watershed Council is doing a fundraiser on March 17th – golf tournament, dinner and auction. Everyone’s encouraged to support.

 Viable seed is confirmed for Cape ivy. Two sites reported in the CNPS newsletter were Gibson Creek and San Jose Creek.

 Sally:

 She is in the process of doing the taxes.

 Molly:

 Cape ivy update – they have received a lot of seed contributions and found viable seed from throughout the state. This has caused the expansion of the research in South Africa to biocontrols that attack the seeds, as well as the leaves.

 Let’s have Joe Balciunus talk at one of our next General Meetings and solicit funds.

 We already have a couple of diseases that affect it here.

 Ken:

 He will be meeting with Dave Passovoy tomorrow to learn how State Parks is handling their exotic species.

 Science is moving ahead. The stream gage is now six months old.

 Marty gave us Caroline McKnight, a new DFG staff person, to habitat type the creek from the lagoon to the top of steelhead access, probably the Western’s property. They will measure many features of the creek throughout. It should take two weeks.

 The next step is a fish study. DFG will electrofish the pools. The mortality rate is 0.05%. Any mortalities go to the NMFS lab.

 We will eventually use all this, and more, to form a watershed assessment. We will follow the format of DFG’s Salmonid Restoration Manual. Ken needs help developing this document.

 Watershed Info Exchange – Keep encouraging people to participate. It is an excellent way to network with other watershed people and agency people.

 Bank Account – We need more money. It is time for a plea. We need to keep $1200 in our account to cover the replacement stream gage for CSUMB. We are left with $400 in the account.

 We will probably submit a grant application to Marty for $250,000 in May for implementation of the plan.

 Where are we going? –  

Following are some ideas. Discuss it further over email before the next meeting.

Molly – It is encouraging that info is coming back saying that creek is in good condition. Continue getting the info, then monitor our activities. Exotic plants. At some point we need to discuss recycling and trash control. Stay together as a community through the council.

 In summary:

Build a relationship with the Mid-Coast Fire Brigade. Perhaps have them be a speaker in May on Disaster preparedness.

 April 22 – Planning Group Meeting at Molly’s at 7pm

 May 11 – General Meeting

 Adjourned at 8:10pm